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When I use Element->Build Accented Character to build one of the Extended Greek characters (U+1F00-U+1FFF) PfaEdit picks the wrong accents. Why?

April 26, 2017accented build character characters element->build extended Greek pfaedit picks u+1f00-u+1fff

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When I use Element->Build Accented Character to build one of the Extended Greek characters (U+1F00-U+1FFF) PfaEdit picks the wrong accents. Why?

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For some reason Unicode has unified greek and latin accents even though they don’t look at all alike. When PfaEdit follows the simplistic unicode definitions it will probably pick a latin accent for greek characters. Fortunately Unicode also contains code points for the greek accents starting around U+1FBD, if you fill these code points with the appropriate accents then PfaEdit will use these rather than the latin accents.