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<h1 class="title">Charis - Version History</h1>
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<h3 id="jun-2025-sil-wstech-team-charis-version-7.000">2 Jun 2025
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(SIL WSTech Team) Charis version 7.000</h3>
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<p><strong><em>Note that this is a major upgrade with significant
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changes to family structure, line spacing, and glyph metrics. Please
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read the following carefully to understand how the changes may
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affect you.</em></strong></p>
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<h4 id="font-names-family-structure-and-line-metrics">Font names,
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family structure, and line metrics</h4>
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<ul>
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<li><p>Font family names have changed. It is possible to have both
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this release (v7) and the previous one (v6.2) installed at the same
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time. This is a permanent change intended to help with the
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transition from v6.2 to v7.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><em>Charis SIL</em> is now <em>Charis</em></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><p>There are additional intermediate weights. Previously
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existing weights have not changed. Here is a list, with retained
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weights in <strong>bold</strong> and new weights in <em>italic</em>.
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The CSS values for the weights within each family are in
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parentheses. Italic faces follow a similar structure and
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correspondence.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Charis Regular</strong> (400)</li>
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<li><em>Charis Medium</em> (500)</li>
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<li><em>Charis SemiBold</em> (600)</li>
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<li><strong>Charis Bold</strong> (700)</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><p>The default line spacing has been significantly decreased to
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be more similar to other common text fonts, but remains wide enough
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to accommodate multiple stacked diacritics.</p></li>
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<li><p>There are no <em>Compact</em> variants. These are less needed
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since the default line spacing has been decreased. <em>Compact</em>
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versions of the v6.2 fonts remain available from
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https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/</p></li>
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<li><p>TypeTuner Web no longer offers line spacing alternatives for
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the v7 fonts (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose
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variants the v6.2 fonts remain available and support line spacing
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alternatives.</p></li>
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<li><p>There are no ‘pre-tuned’ regional or <em>Literacy</em>
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special-purpose modified variants. The v6.2 variants, including
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<em>Literacy</em> versions, remain available from
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https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/. You can still manually
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create v7 variants with TypeTuner Web that include literacy forms
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and other alternatives.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h4 id="new-features-and-enhancements">New features and
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enhancements</h4>
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<ul>
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<li><p>Kerning has now been added and covers the full range of
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alphabetic symbols except for small caps (which will be included in
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a future update). <strong>Warning: Because of the addition of
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extensive kerning, line, paragraph, and page lengths may be
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different from v6.2.</strong></p></li>
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<li><p>Proportional Oldstyle figures are now supported through the
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standard OpenType feature (<code>onum</code>). These only apply to
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the main numerals, not fractions, superscripts, or numeral-based
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symbols.</p></li>
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<li><p>The default form for capital N with left hook has been
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changed to the lowercase style to match the capital Eng. The related
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feature (<code>cv44</code>) has been changed to substitute the
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uppercase style form.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>U+019D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><p>Additions to Modifier Apostrophe feature
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(<code>cv70</code>)</p>
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<ul>
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<li>U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA</li>
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<li>U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA</li>
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<li>U+0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE</li>
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<li>U+0314 COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><p>Addition to Rams Horn feature (<code>cv25</code>)</p>
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<ul>
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<li>U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><p>Small caps added for these parentheses and brackets</p>
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<ul>
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<li>U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS</li>
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<li>U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS</li>
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<li>U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET</li>
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<li>U+005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET</li>
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<li>U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET</li>
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<li>U+007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET</li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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<h4 id="new-character-support">New character support</h4>
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<ul>
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<li>Unicode 16 additions
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<ul>
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<li>U+1C89 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE</li>
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<li>U+1C8A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE</li>
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<li>U+A7CB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RAMS HORN
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<ul>
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<li>This was previously in the SIL PUA (U+F26E)</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE</li>
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<li>U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE</li>
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<li>U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA</li>
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<li>U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA</li>
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<li>U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Orthographic at signs
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<ul>
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<li>U+24B6 CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A</li>
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<li>U+24D0 CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Additional Cyrillic modifiers
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<ul>
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<li>U+A69C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC HARD SIGN</li>
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<li>U+A69D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Case mapping for Coptic eie
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<ul>
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<li>U+2C89 COPTIC SMALL LETTER EIE</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Upwards ancora (and revised downwards form)
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<ul>
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<li>U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA</li>
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<li>U+2E15 UPWARDS ANCORA</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Prosodic symbols
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<ul>
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<li>U+23D1 METRICAL BREVE</li>
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<li>U+23D2 METRICAL LONG OVER SHORT</li>
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<li>U+23D3 METRICAL SHORT OVER LONG</li>
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<li>U+23D4 METRICAL LONG OVER TWO SHORTS</li>
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<li>U+23D5 METRICAL TWO SHORTS OVER LONG</li>
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<li>U+23D6 METRICAL TWO SHORTS JOINED</li>
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<li>U+2E3D VERTICAL SIX DOTS</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Doubled brackets and parentheses
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<ul>
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<li>U+27EA MATHEMATICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET</li>
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<li>U+27EB MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET</li>
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<li>U+2E28 LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS</li>
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<li>U+2E29 RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Logical symbols
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<ul>
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<li>U+21AE LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE</li>
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<li>U+22BB XOR</li>
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<li>U+22BC NAND</li>
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<li>U+22BD NOR</li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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<h4 id="improvements-and-fixes">Improvements and fixes</h4>
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<ul>
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<li>Support added for complex positioning of bridging double
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diacritics and nearby marks. Correct rendering requires a very
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specific encoding sequence - see
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https://software.sil.org/fonts/bridging-diacritics/
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<ul>
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<li>U+035C COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW</li>
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<li>U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE</li>
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<li>U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON</li>
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<li>U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW</li>
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<li>U+0360 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE</li>
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<li>U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE</li>
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<li>U+0362 COMBINING DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW</li>
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<li>U+1DCD COMBINING DOUBLE CIRCUMFLEX ABOVE</li>
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<li>U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW</li>
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<li>U+F17A COMBINING DOUBLE DIAERESIS (in SIL PUA)</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Redesigned Central European carons
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<ul>
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<li>U+010F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON</li>
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<li>U+013D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON</li>
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<li>U+013E LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON</li>
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<li>U+0165 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Revised hooked letters to improve spacing (including kerning)
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and reduce collisions. Some collisions have been retained to reduce
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unwanted whitespace within words (e.g. ƴk).
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<ul>
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<li>U+0188 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+01A5 LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+01AD LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+01B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+01B4 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+0260 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+02A0 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+2C71 LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH RIGHT HOOK</li>
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<li>U+2C72 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+2C73 LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+1DF09 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK AND RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Fixed position of
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<ul>
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<li>U+1D09 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED I</li>
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<li>U+1D4E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED I</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Fixed dotless form of
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<ul>
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<li>U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Fixed spacing of
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<ul>
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<li>U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Revised design of
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<ul>
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<li>U+A720 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND HIGH TONE</li>
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<li>U+A721 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND LOW TONE</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Fixed position of
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<ul>
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<li>U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Increased size of Vietnamese hook above
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<ul>
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<li>U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Improved design of some combining diacritics
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<ul>
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<li>U+032B COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW</li>
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<li>U+033C COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW</li>
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<li>U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW</li>
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<li>U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW</li>
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<li>U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Revised anchors on many letters to improve diacritic
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positioning, including these and related letters
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<ul>
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<li>U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J</li>
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<li>U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q</li>
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<li>U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y</li>
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<li>U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F</li>
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<li>U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I</li>
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<li>U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J</li>
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<li>U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y</li>
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<li>U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Reviewed anchors on spacing acutes and graves
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<ul>
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<li>U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT</li>
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<li>U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT</li>
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<li>U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT</li>
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<li>U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT</li>
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<li>U+02CE MODIFIER LETTER LOW GRAVE ACCENT</li>
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<li>U+02CF MODIFIER LETTER LOW ACUTE ACCENT</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Autohinting is more consistent across the font family</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="feb-2023-sil-wstech-team-charis-sil-version-6.200">1 Feb
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2023 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.200</h3>
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<p>This release is focused on adding features and glyphs, including
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support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode 14
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and 15. It does not include significant changes to line spacing,
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glyph widths, or kerning that might cause document reflow or layout
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changes - except for minor improvements to the size and weight of
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superscript, subscript, and modifier letters.</p>
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<h4 id="new-features-including-typetuner-web-support">New features,
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including <em>TypeTuner Web</em> support</h4>
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<ul>
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<li>Feature to display alternate design of clicks that sit on
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baseline
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<ul>
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<li>Baseline clicks (cv69)</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Standard 'subs' and 'sups' features for numerals. These are not
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supported by <em>TypeTuner Web</em>.
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<ul>
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<li>Subscript numerals (subs)</li>
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<li>Superscript numerals (sups)</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Feature to automatically construct fractions when using U+002F
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SOLIDUS or U+2044 FRACTION SLASH. This is not supported by
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<em>TypeTuner Web</em>.
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<ul>
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<li>Automatic fractions (frac)</li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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<h4 id="new-character-support-1">New character support</h4>
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<ul>
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<li>Additional click (also supported by new baseline clicks feature)
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<ul>
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<li>U+2980 TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR DELIMITER</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Letters used for legacy Malayalam transliteration
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<ul>
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<li>U+1DF25 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK</li>
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<li>U+1DF26 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK</li>
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<li>U+1DF27 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK</li>
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<li>U+1DF28 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK</li>
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<li>U+1DF29 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK</li>
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<li>U+1DF2A LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Letters used for Egyptological transliteration
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<ul>
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<li>U+A7BA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL A</li>
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<li>U+A7BB LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL A</li>
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<li>U+A7BC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL I</li>
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<li>U+A7BD LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL I</li>
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<li>U+A7BE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL U</li>
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<li>U+A7BF LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL U</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Combining marks
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<ul>
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<li>U+1ABF COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER W BELOW</li>
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<li>U+1AC0 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W BELOW</li>
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<li>U+1AC6 COMBINING NUMBER SIGN ABOVE</li>
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<li>U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE</li>
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<li>U+1AC8 COMBINING PLUS SIGN ABOVE</li>
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<li>U+1AC9 COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN ABOVE</li>
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<li>U+1ACA COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN BELOW</li>
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<li>U+1ACB COMBINING TRIPLE ACUTE ACCENT</li>
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<li>U+1ACC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G</li>
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<li>U+1ACD COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR R</li>
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<li>U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T</li>
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<li>U+1DDA COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER G</li>
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<li>U+1DDC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER K</li>
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<li>U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Combining marks that are not recommended for normal use and may
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not combine well with letters. Precomposed characters that include
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the hook should be used instead except in rare cases.
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<ul>
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<li>U+0321 COMBINING PALATALIZED HOOK BELOW</li>
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<li>U+0322 COMBINING RETROFLEX HOOK BELOW</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Modifier letters and symbols
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<ul>
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<li>U+A7F2 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL C</li>
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<li>U+A7F3 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL F</li>
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<li>U+A7F4 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL Q</li>
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<li>U+AB69 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED W</li>
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<li>U+AB6A MODIFIER LETTER LEFT TACK</li>
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<li>U+AB6B MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT TACK</li>
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<li>U+10780 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL AA</li>
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<li>U+10781 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT TRIANGULAR COLON</li>
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<li>U+10782 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT HALF TRIANGULAR COLON</li>
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<li>U+10784 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL B</li>
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<li>U+10785 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL B WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+10787 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH</li>
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<li>U+10788 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX
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HOOK</li>
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<li>U+10789 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH CURL</li>
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<li>U+1078A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DEZH DIGRAPH</li>
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<li>U+1078B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH TAIL</li>
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<li>U+1078C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+1078D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK AND TAIL</li>
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<li>U+10790 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL FENG DIGRAPH</li>
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<li>U+10792 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G</li>
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<li>U+10793 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL G WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+10794 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+10796 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL H</li>
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<li>U+10797 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG WITH HOOK</li>
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<li>U+10798 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND
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HOOK</li>
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<li>U+10799 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LS DIGRAPH</li>
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<li>U+1079A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LZ DIGRAPH</li>
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<li>U+1079B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH BELT</li>
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<li>U+1079C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT</li>
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<li>U+1079D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND
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BELT</li>
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<li>U+1079E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH</li>
|
||
<li>U+1079F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A1 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y WITH BELT</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED OMEGA</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A5 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Q</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A6 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A7 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND
|
||
RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH TAIL</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A9 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH FISHHOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107AA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL R</li>
|
||
<li>U+107AB MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL</li>
|
||
<li>U+107AC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH</li>
|
||
<li>U+107AD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX
|
||
HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107AE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TESH DIGRAPH</li>
|
||
<li>U+107AF MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL V WITH RIGHT HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B3 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B4 MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B5 MODIFIER LETTER BILABIAL CLICK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B6 MODIFIER LETTER DENTAL CLICK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B7 MODIFIER LETTER LATERAL CLICK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B8 MODIFIER LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B9 MODIFIER LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+107BA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL S WITH CURL</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li>Cyrillic modifier letters, subscripts, and combining marks
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+1E030 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL A</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E031 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E032 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL VE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E033 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL GHE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E034 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL DE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E035 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL IE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E036 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZHE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E037 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E038 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL I</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E039 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL KA</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E03A MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E03B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EM</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E03C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL O</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E03D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E03E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ER</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E03F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E040 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E041 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL U</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E042 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EF</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E043 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL HA</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E044 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TSE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E045 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL CHE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E046 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SHA</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E047 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YERU</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E048 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL E</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E049 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YU</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E04B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SCHWA</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E04C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN
|
||
I</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E04D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL JE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E04E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BARRED O</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E04F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E050 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PALOCHKA</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E051 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER A</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E052 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E053 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER VE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E054 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E055 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E056 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER IE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E057 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZHE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E058 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E059 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER I</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E05A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER KA</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E05B CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E05C CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER O</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E05D CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER PE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E05E CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ES</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E05F CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER U</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E060 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EF</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E061 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HA</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E062 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER TSE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E063 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E064 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER SHA</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E065 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E066 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER YERU</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E067 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E068 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN
|
||
I</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E069 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E06A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZHE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E06B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES WITH DESCENDER</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E06D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U WITH
|
||
STROKE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1E08F COMBINING CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN
|
||
I</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li>Miscellaneous letters
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+A7C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7C8 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7C9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7CA LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY</li>
|
||
<li>U+AB66 LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+AB67 LATIN SMALL LETTER TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+AB68 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH MIDDLE TILDE</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li>Symbols
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+2031 PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN</li>
|
||
<li>U+203D INTERROBANG</li>
|
||
<li>U+203E OVERLINE</li>
|
||
<li>U+2042 ASTERISM</li>
|
||
<li>U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET</li>
|
||
<li>U+20C0 SOM SIGN</li>
|
||
<li>U+218A TURNED DIGIT TWO</li>
|
||
<li>U+218B TURNED DIGIT THREE</li>
|
||
<li>U+21B6 ANTICLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW</li>
|
||
<li>U+21B7 CLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW</li>
|
||
<li>U+21BA ANTICLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW</li>
|
||
<li>U+21BB CLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW</li>
|
||
<li>U+2215 DIVISION SLASH</li>
|
||
<li>U+2221 MEASURED ANGLE</li>
|
||
<li>U+2227 LOGICAL AND</li>
|
||
<li>U+2228 LOGICAL OR</li>
|
||
<li>U+226E NOT LESS-THAN</li>
|
||
<li>U+226F NOT GREATER-THAN</li>
|
||
<li>U+2318 PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN</li>
|
||
<li>U+25C9 FISHEYE</li>
|
||
<li>U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE</li>
|
||
<li>U+2610 BALLOT BOX</li>
|
||
<li>U+2611 BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK</li>
|
||
<li>U+2612 BALLOT BOX WITH X</li>
|
||
<li>U+2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE</li>
|
||
<li>U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE</li>
|
||
<li>U+2713 CHECK MARK</li>
|
||
<li>U+2717 BALLOT X</li>
|
||
<li>U+27C2 PERPENDICULAR</li>
|
||
<li>U+2AFD DOUBLE SOLIDUS OPERATOR</li>
|
||
<li>U+2E3E WIGGLY VERTICAL LINE</li>
|
||
<li>U+1F12F COPYLEFT SYMBOL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1F610 NEUTRAL FACE</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h4 id="improvements-and-fixes-1">Improvements and fixes</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p>Kayan diacritics feature (cv79) now supported by TypeTuner
|
||
Web</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Combining letters, modifier letters, superscripts, and
|
||
subscripts have been made more consistent in size and
|
||
weight</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Encoding fixed for U+1078E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED
|
||
E</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Size increased for:</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+02BE MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING</li>
|
||
<li>U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING</li>
|
||
<li>U+02D2 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED RIGHT HALF RING</li>
|
||
<li>U+02D3 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED LEFT HALF RING</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li><p>U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR is now included in
|
||
single-story/double-story features</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>The combination of U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y and U+0328
|
||
COMBINING OGONEK forms a ligature</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Small cap form corrected for U+A78D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
|
||
TURNED H / U+0265 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK repositioned to middle leg of U+006D
|
||
LATIN SMALL LETTER M</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Diacritic positioning improved for U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER
|
||
J</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Diacritic positioning improved for U+2183 ROMAN NUMERAL
|
||
REVERSED ONE HUNDRED</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Position of dot changed for U+1E23 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH
|
||
DOT ABOVE</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h4 id="notes">Notes</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>The next major version (7) will address some complex pending
|
||
issues and features and may include substantial changes to line
|
||
spacing, glyph metrics, kerning, and even font family structure. If
|
||
you have any requests for future versions please contact us as soon
|
||
as possible.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="feb-2022-sil-wstech-team-charis-sil-version-6.101">9 Feb
|
||
2022 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.101</h3>
|
||
<p>This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6
|
||
fonts available on <em>TypeTuner Web</em>.</p>
|
||
<h4 id="new">New</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p>The fonts now support SIL <em>TypeTuner</em>. Customized
|
||
fonts can be created at <em>TypeTuner Web</em>
|
||
(https://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi)</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>New <code>locl</code> OpenType feature that supports
|
||
Macedonian (MKD/mk) Cyrillic alternates</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Serbian and Macedonian alternates are also available through
|
||
a new OpenType feature (cv84) for applications that do not support
|
||
language-specific <code>locl</code> features</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Characters have been added to support Unicode versions up to
|
||
14.0.0 (more to be added in future releases):</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+A7C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH PALATAL HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF00 LATIN SMALL LETTER FENG DIGRAPH WITH TRILL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF01 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED SCRIPT G</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF02 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED G</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF03 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED K</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF05 LATIN SMALL LETTER LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF07 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED ENG</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF09 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK AND RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF0A LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF0B LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF0C LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR AND CURL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF0D LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T WITH CURL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF0E LATIN LETTER INVERTED GLOTTAL STOP WITH CURL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF0F LATIN LETTER STRETCHED C WITH CURL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF10 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED K</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF11 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH FISHHOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF12 LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH WITH PALATAL HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF13 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH BELT AND PALATAL HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF14 LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG WITH PALATAL HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF15 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH PALATAL HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF16 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK AND PALATAL HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF17 LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH WITH PALATAL HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF19 LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF1B LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF1C LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF1D LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH RETROFLEX HOOK</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF1E LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CURL</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h4 id="improved">Improved</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p>The special-purpose modified fonts have been updated to be
|
||
based on the current version. These are available at
|
||
https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/ and include
|
||
<em>Literacy</em> and <em>Compact</em> versions.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>U+02DE MODIFIER LETTER RHOTIC HOOK position improved with
|
||
modifier vowels:</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+02B8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y</li>
|
||
<li>U+1D53 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL OPEN O</li>
|
||
<li>U+1D5A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED M</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DBA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED V</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li><p>Design improved for these characters:</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+0184 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TONE SIX</li>
|
||
<li>U+0185 LATIN SMALL LETTER TONE SIX</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li><p>The small caps feature (smcp) now supports more
|
||
characters</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>The spacing of Serbian italic alternates has been
|
||
improved</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h4 id="changed-encoding">Changed encoding</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>The following characters were in the SIL PUA but have now been
|
||
given Unicode assignments. The SIL PUA characters are now
|
||
deprecated:
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+A7C6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH PALATAL HOOK (was
|
||
U+F234)</li>
|
||
<li>U+10783 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL AE (was U+F1A1)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1078F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E (was
|
||
U+F1A4)</li>
|
||
<li>U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN (was U+F1B5)</li>
|
||
<li>U+10795 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH STROKE (was U+F1BC)</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y (was U+F1CE)</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A2 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL O WITH STROKE (was U+F1AB)</li>
|
||
<li>U+107A3 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OE (was U+F1AE)</li>
|
||
<li>U+107B2 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Y (was U+F1B4)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1088E NABATAEAN LETTER FINAL KAPH (was U+F1A3)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF04 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT (was U+F268)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF06 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y WITH BELT (was U+F267)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF08 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND RETROFLEX
|
||
HOOK (was U+F269)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF18 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH PALATAL HOOK (was
|
||
U+F235)</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="july-2021-sil-wstech-team-charis-sil-version-6.001">2 July
|
||
2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.001</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Reverted font Postscript name to that used in v5 and earlier to
|
||
avoid problems with unrecognized fonts when opening older
|
||
documents.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="jun-2021-sil-wstech-team-charis-sil-version-6.000">29 Jun
|
||
2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.000</h3>
|
||
<p><strong><em>Note that this is a major upgrade that may cause
|
||
document reflow as some glyphs widths have changed and some features
|
||
have been removed.</em></strong></p>
|
||
<h4 id="removed">Removed</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p><strong>Removed DSIGs added in version 5.000.</strong> These
|
||
have now been removed to reflect current best practice font
|
||
development guidance. Adobe InDesign will complain that fonts cannot
|
||
be found if a document last saved with version 5.000 is opened with
|
||
version 5.960 or later installed. It will be necessary to
|
||
find/replace the fonts in the document using the command in the Type
|
||
menu. Please also look over the document carefully to note any
|
||
places where changes in the fonts have affected letterforms or
|
||
spacing.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p><strong>Graphite has been removed.</strong> Application and
|
||
OS support for OpenType has greatly improved, so the need for
|
||
Graphite in this font family is greatly reduced. <em>If this affects
|
||
you, and you find that OpenType does not provide sufficient support
|
||
for your needs, please contact us right away.</em></p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Removed the <em>Show Invisibles</em> feature.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Removed support for nine-level pitch contours. These will be
|
||
replaced by a standalone pitch contours font in the future.</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h4 id="added">Added</h4>
|
||
<p>Characters added to support Unicode versions 7.0-13.0, including
|
||
feature support (e.g. small caps) where appropriate:</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+03D1 GREEK THETA SYMBOL</li>
|
||
<li>U+03F4 GREEK CAPITAL THETA SYMBOL</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB0 COMBINING DOUBLED CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB1 COMBINING DIAERESIS-RING</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB2 COMBINING INFINITY</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB4 COMBINING TRIPLE DOT</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB5 COMBINING X-X BELOW</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB6 COMBINING WIGGLY LINE BELOW</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB9 COMBINING LIGHT CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW</li>
|
||
<li>U+1ABA COMBINING STRONG CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DF5 COMBINING UP TACK ABOVE</li>
|
||
<li>U+203B REFERENCE MARK</li>
|
||
<li>U+20BE LARI SIGN</li>
|
||
<li>U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN</li>
|
||
<li>U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET</li>
|
||
<li>U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET</li>
|
||
<li>U+2E13 DOTTED OBELOS</li>
|
||
<li>U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA</li>
|
||
<li>U+2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN</li>
|
||
<li>U+2E22 TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET</li>
|
||
<li>U+2E23 TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET</li>
|
||
<li>U+2E24 BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET</li>
|
||
<li>U+2E25 BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET</li>
|
||
<li>U+A78F LATIN LETTER SINOLOGICAL DOT</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7AF LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CHI</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7B4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER BETA</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7B5 LATIN SMALL LETTER BETA</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7B6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7B7 LATIN SMALL LETTER OMEGA</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7B8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH STROKE</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7B9 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH STROKE</li>
|
||
<li>U+AB30 LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED ALPHA</li>
|
||
<li>U+AB53 LATIN SMALL LETTER CHI</li>
|
||
<li>U+AB5C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG</li>
|
||
<li>U+AB5E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE</li>
|
||
<li>U+F26E CAPITAL RAMS HORN (in SIL PUA)</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h4 id="new-1">New</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p>First release that uses a UFO-based design and production
|
||
workflow</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>All sources are in open formats</li>
|
||
<li>Build toolkit and workflow is completely open-source</li>
|
||
<li>See
|
||
https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Introduction.html</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li><p>Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2
|
||
formats</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Applied new hinting techniques to try to improve screen
|
||
rendering on Windows</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>All-new documentation in HTML and PDF formats</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Features for controlling literacy forms of a and g
|
||
separately</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Literacy a alternates (ss02)</li>
|
||
<li>Literacy g alternates (ss03)</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li><p>Feature to support side-by-side rendering of U+0300 plus
|
||
U+0301</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Kayan diacritics (cv79)</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li><p>Tone letter features (cv91 & cv92) now supported through
|
||
OpenType</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h4 id="fixes">Fixes</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p>Width of typographic spaces have been made more consistent to
|
||
reflect common publishing industry usage. Note that this may affect
|
||
line and page lengths. Affected spaces:</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+2000 EN QUAD (made width consistent)</li>
|
||
<li>U+2001 EM QUAD (made width consistent)</li>
|
||
<li>U+2007 FIGURE SPACE (made wider to match numerals in all
|
||
styles)</li>
|
||
<li>U+2009 THIN SPACE (made narrower)</li>
|
||
<li>U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (made narrower)</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li><p>Fixed some small capital correspondences, including added
|
||
support for clicks</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Fixed problems with spacing of tone letters</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Fixed missing or distorted Vietnamese composite
|
||
glyphs</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Fixed miscellaneous distorted glyphs</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Improved miscellaneous anchor positions, including the
|
||
position of diacritics below glyphs with macrons below (e.g. U+1E0F
|
||
LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH LINE BELOW)</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Improved position of diacritics for superscripts and modifier
|
||
letters (including cedilla, ogonek, rhotic hook)</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>Fixes and improvements to various glyphs:</p>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN (spacing)</li>
|
||
<li>U+01E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH STROKE (bar position on
|
||
single-story variant)</li>
|
||
<li>U+02D6 MODIFIER LETTER PLUS SIGN (size)</li>
|
||
<li>U+02DF MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT (size)</li>
|
||
<li>U+02E4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP (form)</li>
|
||
<li>U+033B COMBINING SQUARE BELOW (more rectangular)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW (position fixes since beta
|
||
1)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1D02 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED AE (made double-story in
|
||
italic)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1D15 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OU (form)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1D46 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED AE (made double-story in
|
||
italic)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1D77 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED G (position)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1D78 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN (form)</li>
|
||
<li>U+1EFC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MIDDLE-WELSH V</li>
|
||
<li>U+A76A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ET</li>
|
||
<li>U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET</li>
|
||
<li>U+A76C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IS</li>
|
||
<li>U+A76D LATIN SMALL LETTER IS</li>
|
||
<li>U+A77F LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G (position)</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7F8 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL H WITH STROKE (form)</li>
|
||
<li>U+A7FA LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED M (italic)</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h4 id="known-issues">Known issues</h4>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p>There is no support for TypeTuner or TypeTuner Web. We hope
|
||
to add that support soon.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>There are no regional subsets. Please contact us if these are
|
||
a priority for you and describe how you use them. We are reassessing
|
||
whether to provide these subsets. With current web technology and
|
||
WOFF2 compression most uses can be met equally well with the full
|
||
fonts.</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="oct-2014-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-5.000">27 Oct 2014
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 5.000</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support of
|
||
previously Graphite-only features</li>
|
||
<li>Added Character Variants to the font for OpenType support of
|
||
previously Graphite-only features</li>
|
||
<li>Added Serbian feature when Serbian language is turned on</li>
|
||
<li>Added hook D variant feature (for U+018A/U+0257)</li>
|
||
<li>Removed "Show deprecated PUA" feature</li>
|
||
<li>Removed "Romanian-style diacritics" feature (because glyphs are
|
||
now encoded)</li>
|
||
<li>Removed "Diacritic selection" feature</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+039E, U+03BC, U+03C6 and U+03C9 in the Greek and Coptic
|
||
block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+0528..U+052F in the Cyrillic Supplement block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+2041 in the General Punctuation block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+2095..U+209C in the Superscripts and Subscripts
|
||
block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+20B6..U+20BD in the Currency Symbols block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+210C, U+2113, U+2117, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F in the
|
||
Letterlike Symbols block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+2150..U+2152 and U+2189 in the Number Forms block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+2226, U+2234..U+2235, U+2262, U+2282..U+2287 in the
|
||
Mathematical Operators block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F in the Miscellaneous
|
||
Symbols block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+27E8..U+27E9 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
|
||
block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+2C7E..U+2C7F in the Latin Extended-C block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+2C88 in the Coptic block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E3A..U+2E3B in the Supplemental
|
||
Punctuation block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+A736..U+A73F, U+A742..U+A74D, U+A750..U+A787,
|
||
U+A790..U+A7AD, U+A7B0..U+A7B1, U+A7F7..U+A7FA in the Latin
|
||
Extended-D block. These were also added to relevant features.</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+A92E in the Kayah Li block (to support the Kayah Li
|
||
language when using the Roman script)</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+AB64..U+AB65 in the Latin Extended-E block</li>
|
||
<li>Added U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D50F,
|
||
U+1D514, U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric
|
||
Symbols block</li>
|
||
<li>Added PUA characters U+F26C (curl J) and U+F26D (left-hook
|
||
b)</li>
|
||
<li>Characters in our PUA that were added to Unicode have had their
|
||
codepoints updated: F1AD>A7F9, F266>A78E, F26B>A78D,
|
||
F32C>0526, F32D>0527, F17B>1DFD, F209>2C70</li>
|
||
<li>These PUA characters were deprecated (now white on black
|
||
glyphs): U+F17B, U+F1AD, U+F209, U+F247, U+F248, U+F266, U+F26B,
|
||
U+F32C, U+F32D</li>
|
||
<li>Deleted U+0149 as it is officially deprecated in Unicode</li>
|
||
<li>Added support for shorter macrons under narrow letters
|
||
(i,l,r,t). (This only works for Graphite or using precomposed
|
||
characters in OpenType.)</li>
|
||
<li>Made it possible for saltillo characters (U+A78B and U+A78C) to
|
||
"carry" diacritics</li>
|
||
<li>Improved design of U+A722..U+A725 and U+A78D</li>
|
||
<li>Refactored all cedilla positioning</li>
|
||
<li>Removal of unneeded duplicate glyphs (because of improvements in
|
||
smart font code)</li>
|
||
<li>Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of
|
||
Vietnamese alternates and Small Caps</li>
|
||
<li>Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of
|
||
Ogonek alternates and Small Caps</li>
|
||
<li>Improved hinting</li>
|
||
<li>Significant size, position and metric changes made to Subscript
|
||
and Superscript parentheses, plus, minus, equals.</li>
|
||
<li>Size of guillomets (U+00AB U+00BB U+2039 U+203A) modified to
|
||
match the font. Metrics were not changed.</li>
|
||
<li>Arrowhead design of U+21A8 modified to match the other
|
||
arrows</li>
|
||
<li>Placement of Ogonek revisited</li>
|
||
<li>Slight modification to positioning of U+0361 and U+035C in
|
||
Italic and Bold Italic</li>
|
||
<li>Changed the strongly curved hooks on Cyrillic U+04C3..U+04C4,
|
||
U+04C7..U+04C8, U+04FC..U+04FD, U+0512..U+0513 to be more consistent
|
||
with other hooks</li>
|
||
<li>Modified Cyrillic italic versions of U+04AF, U+04B1, U+04B5,
|
||
U+04BC, U+04BE, U+04D8</li>
|
||
<li>Modified design of U+A78D to be more curved and less
|
||
squared</li>
|
||
<li>Changed postscript names for U+0218 and U+0219</li>
|
||
<li>Changed postscript names for U+2203, U+232A and U+2329</li>
|
||
<li>"Hide tone contour staves" feature now works with single
|
||
tonebar</li>
|
||
<li>U+1DBF now follows weight and italic changes</li>
|
||
<li>Allowed combining marks to render properly with U+02D0</li>
|
||
<li>Removed AAT support</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="jun-2013-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.114">10 Jun 2013
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.114</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>optimized Graphite code for faster processing of plain ASCII
|
||
text</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="aug-2012-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.112">1 Aug 2012
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.112</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Changed Graphite feature identifiers from integers to
|
||
4-character alphanumeric tags (no other changes)</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="sep-2011-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.110">12 Sep 2011
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.110</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Removed the VDMX table</li>
|
||
<li>Changed version number (using ttfsetver)</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="aug-2011-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.108">25 Aug 2011
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.108</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to
|
||
Unicode 5.2 and 6.0 (using ttfremap)</li>
|
||
<li>Encoded 1D29 (using ttfremap)</li>
|
||
<li>Corrected problem with coverage tables (using ttfsortcover)</li>
|
||
<li>Changed version number (using ttfsetver)</li>
|
||
<li>Added device metric tables</li>
|
||
<li>Added an empty dsig table</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="may-2009-alan-ward-charis-sil-version-4.106">05 May 2009
|
||
(Alan Ward) Charis SIL version 4.106</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>TypeTuner (Silt) table changed so that line metrics from legacy
|
||
fonts can be imported</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="mar-2009-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.106">20 Mar 2009
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.106</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Added support for Unicode 5.1 Latin and Cyrillic additions</li>
|
||
<li>Other characters added: 0462, 0463, 0474, 0475, 0524, 0525,
|
||
20E5, 2203, 2204, 231C..U+231F, 2329, 232A, 239B..23AD,
|
||
A722..U+A725</li>
|
||
<li>Added PUA characters F26B, F32C, F32D</li>
|
||
<li>Design changes: 002F, 00A1, 00BF, 02D0, 02ED, 02FF, 034B, 04A8,
|
||
04A9, 04BC, 04BD, 04BE, 04BF, 04E0, 04E1, 045F, 04AA, 04AB, F208,
|
||
F209, 0358</li>
|
||
<li>Fixed attachment points on 1D68, 1D69, 1D6A, 04FA, 04FB, fi and
|
||
fl ligatures</li>
|
||
<li>Fixed collision issues for Vietnamese glyphs 'with horn'</li>
|
||
<li>Fixed advance of t-caron</li>
|
||
<li>Feature modifications:
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>new alternates added to feature ID 1033 and renamed from Small
|
||
v-hook alternate to V-hook alternates</li>
|
||
<li>new alternate U+2C65 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE added to
|
||
Literacy alternates feature</li>
|
||
<li>default for Diacritic selection was changed from "on" to "off"
|
||
(by request of FieldWorks team)</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li>Added new features:
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Small Caps</li>
|
||
<li>Non-European caron alternates</li>
|
||
<li>Capital B-hook alternate</li>
|
||
<li>Show deprecated PUA</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li>Slant italic bug fixed (dot on i was not disappearing with
|
||
combining marks)</li>
|
||
<li>Removal of about 700 unused glyphs (including precomposed chao
|
||
tone letters which were no longer needed since these are now
|
||
dynamically created)</li>
|
||
<li>Fixed issues: kern table error, usMaxContext and yMax
|
||
errors</li>
|
||
<li>Several OpenType issues fixed</li>
|
||
<li>Graphite reordering bug fixed</li>
|
||
<li>Automated AAT build process</li>
|
||
<li>Changed OFL license to version 1.1</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="may-2008-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.104">9 May 2008
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.104</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to
|
||
Unicode 5.1 (using ttfremap)</li>
|
||
<li>Changed version number (using ttfsetver)</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="aug-2007-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.102">16 Aug 2007
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.102</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Modified the OpenType features so that InDesign's built-in small
|
||
caps work</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3 id="jan-2007-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.100">31 Jan 2007
|
||
(SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.100</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Added PUA character F26A</li>
|
||
<li>Added 2308, 2309</li>
|
||
<li>Removed Cyrillic italic alternates feature and added those 3
|
||
characters to the slant italic specials feature</li>
|
||
<li>Fixed bug in nine-level tones (in PUA) feature</li>
|
||
<li>Made Chinantec tones larger, added 02C9 to this feature</li>
|
||
<li>Fixed bug in GSUB table to work in Pango</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3
|
||
id="dec-2006-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.0.04-beta-1-version-4.004">15
|
||
Dec 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.0.04 beta 1 (Version
|
||
4.004)</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Beta release (should not be distributed!)</li>
|
||
<li>Added support for Unicode 5 Latin and Cyrillic additions</li>
|
||
<li>Other new chars: 2053, 211F, 2123, 2423, FE20..FE23</li>
|
||
<li>Numerous new PUA characters</li>
|
||
<li>Deprecated some existing PUA chars now added to Unicode</li>
|
||
<li>New features:
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>Open O alternate</li>
|
||
<li>Chinantec tones</li>
|
||
<li>Pitch contour tramlines</li>
|
||
<li>Cyrillic italic alternates</li>
|
||
</ul></li>
|
||
<li>Tone bars no longer limited to 3 sequences (OpenType)</li>
|
||
<li>Added glyphs for nine-level tones (in PUA)</li>
|
||
<li>Design changes to some Greek, Cyrillic, ogonek and modifier
|
||
glyphs, particularly in italic faces</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h3
|
||
id="jan-2006-sil-nrsi-team-charis-sil-version-4.0.02-version-4.002">31
|
||
Jan 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.0.02 (Version
|
||
4.002)</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li>First version released under the SIL Open Font License</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
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|
||
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|
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|
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