Re: small phi font problem

I don't know anything about the Mozilla implementation of this, but I'm 
sure it relates to the fonts that are being used.

The glyphs for the two versions of phi (0x3c6 and 0x3d5) were swapped at 
some point by the unicode specs;
i.e., they used to be one way (curly for 3d5, straight for 3c6), and 
after a certain version of unicode (3.0?), they were swapped.
Therefore, there are many fonts that agree with the older glyphs, and 
many others that agree with the new (and now correct) glyphs.

If one want to have the phis always display correctly, there should be 
some ad-hoc code for dealing with their display, font-by-font.

eduardo

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi Justus,
>
> I know that there are two separate font versions of small phi.  
> Probably I did not make myself clear to you: in order to be consistent  
> with mathml rendered by Firefox 2, one have to switch between the the  
> two fonts used within a text and used in a mathml expression. Cheers,  
> Samy
>
> Quoting [email protected]:
>
>   
>> The Plane-1 Unicode math range provides separate code points for the
>> two different versions of phi.
>>
>> See my test page that displays them side by side:
>> http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~piater/test/phi.xhtml
>>
>> Now all you (and your users) need is a font that provides the math
>> range :-) (but you need that anyway for standard-conforming rendering
>> of MathML). The STIX fonts already work with Firefox 2, and will be
>> the default for Firefox 3.
>>
>> Justus
>>
>>     
>
>
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