Small case is not just tinier capitals; italics are not merely slanted letters

There's a ™ joke in here somewhere, I just don't know what is (aka And if a 't' turned out to be 'm'…)

Sorting it all Out — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:02:16 GMT

It isn't always true, but it often is -- the issue, when it came up, was brought up by a tester.

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If it seems different, that may not be out of character

Sorting It All Out — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:41:28 GMT

And then meanwhile vinaynahata asked: Hi I have an issue with font substitution.I have an italic text

re: Small case is not just tinier capitals; italics are not merely slanted letters

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:58:23 GMT

Hi Cristi....

Because not everyone does everything right 100% of the time? :-)

re: Small case is not just tinier capitals; italics are not merely slanted letters

Cristian Secară — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:57:05 GMT

Why then the glyph for 045D is still a pure ѝ for Courier New italic and Verdana italic ? (Courier New on Vista, Verdana both in EU font update and Vista)

Cristi

re: Small case is not just tinier capitals; italics are not merely slanted letters

John Hudson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:48:18 GMT

The u-shape in this case isn't really equivalent to the Serbian italic variants, which differ from the international norms for certain letters. This u-shape is the normal cursive shape for the Cyrillic letter и. If your correspondent looked more closely at the Times and Arial italic fonts, she would see that this shape is also used for U+0438 and U+0439.

[Among other interesting things happens in cursive Cyrillic, this u-shape is also employed as the basis for U+0446 and U+045F. In other words, letters that do not visually relate to each other in the upright style, do relate to each other in the cursive style.]

By the way, U+045D is used for Macedonian as well as Bulgarian.