Re: [Groff] PS font family with Romanian Glyphs

[Ted Harding]

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On 09-Feb-2016 21:00:02 Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2016, 11:19:48 schrieb Ralph Corderoy:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Heinz-Jürgen wrote:
>> > > After years being happy with German text in latin1 or latin15 I have
>> > > to set some words for Romanian City names.
>> 
>> Some background, having looked into it, that might interest others.  ISO
>> 8859's pages didn't sufficiently cover Romanian until ISO 8859-16 was
>> added quite late on, e.g. ț is byte 254.  Unicode, of course, has runes
>> for ț, etc., without resorting to combining characters.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_alphabet#Digital_typography
>> 
>> Cheers, Ralph.
> 
> I looked at KDE kcharselect
> -----------------
> Zeichen: ţ U+0163
> Name: LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
> Anmerkungen und Querverweise
> Notizen:
> Semitic transliteration, ...
> the character ț U+021B LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW should be used
> instead for Romanian
> Siehe auch:
> ț U+021B LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
> Entsprechungen:
> t U+0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T ̧ U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA
> Allgemeine Zeichen-Eigenschaften
> Block: Latin (Erweiterung-A)
> Unicode-Kategorie: Buchstabe, Kleinschreibung
> Verschiedene nützliche Repräsentationen
> UTF-8: 0xC5 0xA3
> UTF-16: 0x0163
> C oktal dargestelltes UTF-8: \305\243
> XML-Dezimal-Entität: ţ
> ---------------------
> 
> but as it says: LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW should be used instead
> for Romania
> ---------------------
> Zeichen: ț U+021B
> Name: LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
> Anmerkungen und Querverweise
> Notizen:
> Romanian
> Siehe auch:
> ţ U+0163 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
> Entsprechungen:
> t U+0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T ̦ U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW
> Allgemeine Zeichen-Eigenschaften
> Block: Latin (Erweiterung-B)
> Unicode-Kategorie: Buchstabe, Kleinschreibung
> Verschiedene nützliche Repräsentationen
> UTF-8: 0xC8 0x9B
> UTF-16: 0x021B
> C oktal dargestelltes UTF-8: \310\233
> XML-Dezimal-Entität: ț
> ------------------------------
> 
> Heinz

For those who may wish to achieve these things using their
bare hands [à la "troff" = true roff ... ], I show below
the scheme I use for several foreign accented characters,
including Romanian. They depend on definitions given in
the ms macro ".AM" (e.g. \*' etc.). These date back to
the early 1990s (before UTF8 etc, were invented ... ).

.acc*over-def dot \(a.
.acc*over-def breve \(ab
.acc*over-def ring \(ao
.acc*over-def ; \(a"
.\" ------------------------------------------------
.\" Definition of codes to evoke Turkish characters:
.\"    e.g. dotless-i is got by \*i in text
.\" Chars \[gbreve], \[Gbreve] and \[Idot] added by TED  11 October 1993
.char \[Gbreve] G\*[breve]
.char \[gbreve] g\*[breve]
.char \[Idot] I\*[dot]
.char \(uG G\*[breve]
.char \(ug g\*[breve]
.char \(I. I\*[dot]
.\" Acute vowels
.char \(a' a\*'
.char \(A' A\*'
.char \(e' e\*'
.char \(E' E\*'
.char \(i' \\(.i\*'
.char \(I' I\*'
.char \(o' o\*'
.char \(O' O\*'
.char \(u' u\*'
.char \(U' U\*'
.char \(y' y\*'
.char \(Y' Y\*'
.\" Grave vowels
.char \(a` a\*`
.char \(A` A\*`
.char \(e` e\*`
.char \(E` E\*`
.char \(i` \\(.i\*`
.char \(I` I\*`
.char \(o` o\*`
.char \(O` O\*`
.char \(u` u\*`
.char \(U` U\*`
.char \(y` y\*`
.char \(Y` Y\*`
.\" Circumflexes
.char \(a^ a\*^
.char \(A^ A\*^
.char \(e^ e\*^
.char \(E^ E\*^
.char \(i^ \\(.i\*^
.char \(I^ I\*^
.char \(o^ o\*^
.char \(O^ O\*^
.char \(u^ u\*^
.char \(U^ U\*^
.char \(y^ y\*^
.char \(Y^ Y\*^
.\" Umlauts
.char \(a: a\*:
.char \(A: A\*:
.char \(e: e\*:
.char \(E: E\*:
.char \(i: \\(.i\*:
.char \(I: I\*:
.char \(o: o\*:
.char \(O: O\*:
.char \(u: u\*:
.char \(U: U\*:
.char \(y: y\*:
.char \(Y: Y\*:
.\" Slashed characters
.char \(o/ \(/o
.char \(O/ \(/O
.\" Macron-accents
.char \(a_ a\*_
.char \(A_ A\*_
.char \(e_ e\*_
.char \(E_ E\*_
.char \(i_ \(.i\*_
.char \(I_ I\*_
.char \(o_ o\*_
.char \(O_ O\*_
.char \(u_ u\*_
.char \(U_ U\*_
.\" Tildes
.char \(a~ a\*~
.char \(A~ A\*~
.char \(g~ g\*~
.char \(G~ G\*~
.char \(n~ n\*~
.char \(N~ N\*~
.char \(u~ u\*~
.char \(U~ U\*~
.\" Haceks
.char \(av a\*v
.char \(Av A\*v
.char \(cv c\*v
.char \(Cv C\*v
.char \(ev e\*v
.char \(Ev E\*v
.char \(nv n\*v
.char \(Nv N\*v
.char \(rv r\*v
.char \(Rv R\*v
.char \(sv s\*v
.char \(Sv S\*v
.char \(uv u\*v
.char \(Uv U\*v
.char \(zv z\*v
.char \(Zv Z\*v
.\" Cedillas
.char \(c, c\*,
.char \(C, C\*,
.char \(s, s\*,
.char \(S, S\*,
.char \(t, t\*,
.char \(T, T\*,
.\" Overdots
.char \(c. c\*[dot]
.char \(C. C\*[dot]
.char \(e. e\*[dot]
.char \(E. E\*[dot]
.char \(G. G\*[dot]
.char \(g. g\*[dot]
.char \(z. z\*[dot]
.char \(Z. Z\*[dot]
.\" Underdots
.char \(d! d\*.
.char \(D! D\*.
.char \(h! h\*.
.char \(H! H\*.
.char \(k! k\*.
.char \(K! K\*.
.char \(s! s\*.
.char \(S! S\*.
.char \(t! t\*.
.char \(T! T\*.
.char \(z! z\*.
.char \(Z! Z\*.
.\" Acute Consonants
.char \(c' c\*'
.char \(C' C\*'
.char \(d' d\*'
.char \(D' D\*'
.char \(n' n\*'
.char \(N' N\*'
.char \(r' r\*'
.char \(R' R\*'
.char \(s' s\*'
.char \(S' S\*'
.char \(t' t\*'
.char \(T' T\*'
.\" Ring-above
.char \(io \(.i\*[ring]
.char \(Io I\*[ring]
.char \(uo u\*[ring]
.char \(Uo U\*[ring]
.\" Breves
.char \(au a\*[breve]
.char \(Au A\*[breve]
.char \(gu g\*[breve]
.char \(Gu G\*[breve]
.char \(uu u\*[breve]
.char \(Uu U\*[breve]
.\" Miscellaneous Accents
.\" Hungarian umlaut
.char \(o= o\*;
.char \(O= O\*;
.\" Turkish dotless i
.char \(i. \(.i

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Ted.

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