Precomposed Greek Letters with Oxeia (Aigu/Acute Accent)

[anaskaejdar]

Okay, here we go! Episode 6! (See #762 #763 #764 #765 #771 ... and also the related #766)

The oxeia is the most-common accent in greek by far. It's the same one that gets called "tonos" in the modern monotonic system. When people type modern greek, they basically just omit all the accents and breath marks, except oxeia... they still use oxeia in everyday writing. So y'all have already implemented the oxeia beautifully for the purposes of modern texts.

You've already implemented some of these, but the polytonic parts haven't been implemented yet.

I should also mention that for the vowels which only have the oxeia and no other diacritic, there are redundant codepoints for these very same letters in the greek-extended block, but those versions have fallen out of favor so I chose NOT to use those versions, but to stick with the standard greek-coptic block instead for those letters. If those versions are desired, the FN-key transformations proposed in #766 would make them accessible.

ἀ ⇒ ἄ ἁ ⇒ ἅ Ἀ ⇒ Ἄ Ἁ ⇒ Ἅ ἐ ⇒ ἔ ἑ ⇒ ἕ Ἐ ⇒ Ἔ Ἑ ⇒ Ἕ ἠ ⇒ ἤ ἡ ⇒ ἥ Ἠ ⇒ Ἤ Ἡ ⇒ Ἥ ἰ ⇒ ἴ ἱ ⇒ ἵ Ἰ ⇒ Ἴ Ἱ ⇒ Ἵ ὀ ⇒ ὄ ὁ ⇒ ὅ Ὀ ⇒ Ὄ Ὁ ⇒ Ὅ ὐ ⇒ ὔ ὑ ⇒ ὕ Ὑ ⇒ Ὕ ὠ ⇒ ὤ ὡ ⇒ ὥ Ὠ ⇒ Ὤ Ὡ ⇒ Ὥ α ⇒ ά ε ⇒ έ η ⇒ ή ι ⇒ ί ο ⇒ ό υ ⇒ ύ ω ⇒ ώ ᾀ ⇒ ᾄ ᾁ ⇒ ᾅ ᾈ ⇒ ᾌ ᾉ ⇒ ᾍ ᾐ ⇒ ᾔ ᾑ ⇒ ᾕ ᾘ ⇒ ᾜ ᾙ ⇒ ᾝ ᾠ ⇒ ᾤ ᾡ ⇒ ᾥ ᾨ ⇒ ᾬ ᾩ ⇒ ᾭ ᾳ ⇒ ᾴ Α ⇒ Ά ῃ ⇒ ῄ Ε ⇒ Έ Η ⇒ Ή ᾿ ⇒ ῎ ϊ ⇒ ΐ Ι ⇒ Ί ῾ ⇒ ῞ ϋ ⇒ ΰ Υ ⇒ Ύ ¨ ⇒ ΅ ῳ ⇒ ῴ Ο ⇒ Ό Ω ⇒ Ώ [space] ⇒ ´

[Julow]

Huge thanks for providing the tables :) Your attention to the Unicode standard will also help a lot!

I'll need a bit of time to create all these new diacritics as I'm quite busy. If anyone wants to help, the missing piece is making the symbols for the dead keys. I usually take them from the Roboto Regular font, copy the accent from a letter and paste it on top of the dotted circle, then I export it to SVG, for example, https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/blob/master/srcs/special_font/50.svg I'm not requesting this to be done by you and I'll be happy to do it myself when I finally have the time.

[anaskaejdar]

I created the new glyphs

Here's the one for psili:

And the one for dasia:

And here's one for inverted breve:

I always like the way inverted breve looks for perispomeni. It's just clean and simple and communicates effectively. A lot of fonts use the inverted breve shape for the perispomeni, but computer fonts tend to use a tilde instead. Scholars call it a circumflex in english, because its meaning is supposed to be acute and grave simultaneously, but I've never personally seen any font make it look angular like the latin circumflex. A good case can be made for all three, but if I had to pick one, I'd put all the perispomeni action into an inverted-breve modifier layer.

[anaskaejdar]

I think this can be closed. I think back when we were first talking about polytonic letters (in the kurdish thread), compose wasn't yet implemented or wasn't yet in the release, so at that time, polytonic greek letters weren't typeable, and that's where my mind was when I opened this issue.

But now I see they're totally typeable with compose sequences… for instance, ᾗ by compose + iota + tilde + left parenthesis… I don't know when that happened nor how I went so long without noticing. Thanks for doing that @Julow so if you agree, let's close this.

[Julow]

Sorry for the slow reply. Adding more dead keys for polytonic greek letters is not a challenge and you already come out with the glyphs. If you think that compose sequences are enough, then you can close this. Otherwise, I'll be happy to add the dead keys.

[anaskaejdar]

Yeah, I do think the compose sequences suffice. Since I first noticed you did that, I started just using that, and found that it's very functional and easy to use as it is. I like the current state of it.