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

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When I use Element->Build Accented Glyph to build one of the Extended Greek glyphs (U+1F00-U+1FFF) FontForge 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 FontForge follows the simplistic unicode definitions it will probably pick a latin accent for greek glyphs. 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 FontForge will use these rather than the latin accents.

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