Comment 13 for bug 615565

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 16:04, Mark Shuttleworth
<email address hidden> wrote:
> This looks like the best approach, assuming (a) that FontLab recommended
> best practice is being more widely embraced and is the trajectory for OS
> X, Win 7 etc, and (b) that's what we are currently doing or close to it.

I can see how Dalton Maag may be reluctant to go against the current
font creation best practice, but:

(1) The best practice was wrong before.

Previously, the recommendation was to always use commas for U+0162,
U+0163 (Ţţ). This is what Dalton Maag initially did and fixed as a
response to this bug report. That mean that one of the Romanian
letters had a cedilla and the other had a comma. How was that good?

(2) There is no benefit for Ubuntu users, it only creates confusion.

Ubuntu already uses the correct characters for input. Not even print
(paper, plastic) designers would benefit from having the locl feature
since they already input the new characters.

(3) Cristian Secară, the creator of the only keyboard driver allowing
correct Romanian usage on Windows XP, backes me up. He's even
referenced on the matter of correct Romanian usage by Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/romania/Diacritice.aspx

Outside of this bug, there is no need for extensive stack fixing in
Ubuntu. Everything else already works as it should.

Using glyph substitution does not "smooth things over". Why should
Romanians see letters in a different way than all other people? There
is no need to use it, other the complying with a broken best practice.

Mihai