[biblitfonts] Re: New Greek characters in Unicode 4.0

David J. Perry wrote:
[...]
>It occurs to me that it may be a question of habit.  We are used 
>to seeing E/Epsilon, P/Rho, etc. with the same shape.  We see 
>Lunate Sigma less often and so in my mind, at least, the C with 
>serifs is somehow not associated with a Greek letter--it is 
>advertising itself as a Latin form, not a Greek one, so to speak.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Certainly from the-point-of-
view of strict formal homogeneity the serif-less Lunate Sigma 
stands out, but, whichever way a Greek reader looks at it, it is a 
Latin C. To my eyes the lunate forms are inextricably linked with 
Byzantine uncial forms which, albeit modulated, did not have 
anything relating to what I think of as serifs. 

John Hudson wrote:
[...]
>On which note I have to share the attached graphic, one of my 
>favourite examples of multilingual 'making do'.

The amazing thing with this is that they used a reversed U for Pi, 
which is nonsense: especially in the absence of a Lambda in the 
syllables preceding it this would be read as a strange Lambda, not 
a Pi. Only when you take in the 'proper' Lambda in the next 
syllable do you get it...

Gerry

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