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In article <1993Jan10.022251.19724@microsoft.com>, georgem@microsoft.com (George
Moore) says:
>The Cyrillic and Extended Cyrillic areas of the Lucida Sans Unicode
>font contain the Old Slavonic Church characters.
Like most people, I have not seen NT or Lucida Sans Unicode, but here are a few
remarks:
1. There are 2 approaches to rendering obsolete Cyrillyc letters (yat's,
yuses, etc): either use a modern-looking typeface, where these letters
look compatible with modern letters (the approach taken in most Western
textbooks of Old Church Slavonic) or to render them in a black-letter-like
typeface designed in 19th century by a Czech slavist Shafarik (sorry, I'm
not spelling this right :).  The Unicode book, unfortunately, renders
the early letters in Shafarik, so if Lucida follows that, Vasya will have
to mix modern-looking surviing letters, like A, B, V.. with black-letter-
looking early letters, like Zelo or Yat', or the titlos he asked about
(yes, that's the official English name) --- much too ugly to be usable.
If you provide a font variant, you have to provide all the letters in
that variant.  (Imagine rendering early English with most letters from
Times Roman and Thorn, Edh, and Yogh from a display face resembling
Fraktur.  OK, maybe to Microsoft users this is acceptable. :)

2. Note that Vasya hails from Moldova.  If Vasya tries to render old
Moldavian manuscripts (which use Cyrillic) in Unicode, he'll have
a problem, because Unicode lacks the very important letter YN.
It looks like a latin i with an oversized circumflex and was
replaced by a regular Russian yery in 1920.

3. Are there any plans to support Unicode in OS/2 2.x? We can't
use programs that are Not There for production work.

Dimitri