Bug#438139: xfonts-terminus: misleading small cyrillic letter "w"

[Anton Zinoviev]

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In my opinion the small letter I is not a problem - this is the usual
italic shape for this letter and it can not be confused with any other
Cyrillic letter. (Terminus seems to give a mix between normal and
italic shape).

As of the small letter 'w' I must admit, sometimes this was confusing
to me too. :)

Anton Zinoviev

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From: Olaf Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug#438139: xfonts-terminus: misleading small cyrillic letter "w"
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:44:35 +0200
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Package: xfonts-terminus
Version: 4.20-5.1
Severity: important


The cyrillic letter 'в' (small letter!) has a misleading shape as it
looks almost like the capital 'В'. It should not have the same size as
many of the small latin letters like 'acemnorsuvwxz'.

The unicode character table references this letter as
"U+0432 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER VE"
UTF-8: 0xD0 0xB2
UTF-16: 0x0432
decimal XML-entity: &#1074;

checking other letters I find two other ambiguously formed ones:
'и' and 'й'

'и'
U+0438 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I
UTF-8: 0xD0 0xB8
UTF-16: 0x0438
decimal XML-entity: &#1080;

'й'
U+0439 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I
UTF-8: 0xD0 0xB9
UTF-16: 0x0439
decimal XML-entity: &#1081;

The two latter ones should look like their capital equivalents but smaller in
size, like latin 'acemnorsuvwxz'.

I consider this bug more important as the terminus font claims to be
easier readable than other fonts.

    в и й
    В И Й  (capitals)

compare the text above with
http://www.village.in-berlin.de/terminus-bug/

Olaf

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