Dear Cyrillic GP,
Latin GP has been working on Cross-script variants with Cyrillic script.
Latin GP wants to share with you two findings of Latin GP:
1. Latin GP has identified one variant set which would lead to an in-script variant in Cyrillic script LGR.
2. Latin GP has found 6 cross-script variants with Cyrillic script which were not included by Cyrillic GP.
Cyrillic in-script variant finding
During a thorough investigation of variants with Cyrillic script, Latin GP came to the conclusion that one Latin character, U+0079, should be a variant of two different Cyrillic characters, U+04AF and U+0443. Cyrillic GP has already classified U+0079 and U+0443 as variants. Latin GP considers U+04AF to be sufficiently similar to the other characters.
This finding leads towards an in-script variant in Cyrillic script, i.e. between U+04AF and U+0443, due to the requirement of transitivity.
Codepoints of this variant include:
Source Unicode Name
Source Code Point
Source Glyph
Target Glyph
Target Code Point
Target Unicode Name
Rationale
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
0079
y
ү
04AF
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER STRAIGHT U
Glyphs identical due to font design
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
0079
y
у
0443
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U
Homoglyph
The next steps might be the discussion with IP.
Latin-Cyrillic cross-script analysis findings
Latin GP has identified the following cross-script variants set between Latin and Cyrillic script which are not included by Cyrillic GP
Source Unicode Name
Source Code Point
Source Glyph
Target Glyph
Target Code Point
Target Unicode Name
Rationale
1.
LATIN SMALL LETTER R
0072
r
г
0433
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE
Glyphs nearly identical due to font design
2.
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
0079
y
ү
04AF
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER STRAIGHT U
Glyphs nearly identical due to font design
3.
LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
0155
ŕ
ѓ
0453
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GJE
Glyphs nearly identical due to font design
4.
LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH STROKE
024D
ɍ
ғ
0493
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE
Glyphs nearly identical due to font design
5.
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOT BELOW
1EE5
ụ
џ
045F
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE
Glyphs nearly identical due to font design
6.
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH TILDE
1EF9
ỹ
Ӯ
04EF
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON
Glyphs nearly identical due to font design
Best regards
Mirjana Tasic
Latin GP chair
