[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 29465] Remove locl substitutions for Romanian

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29465

--- Comment #4 from Mihai Capotă <mihai at mihaic.ro> 2011-02-17 05:35:54 PST ---
Actually, Wikipedia has also changed since I reported this bug. If you check
the link I mentioned initially [1], you will see that the recommendation is to
use the correct code points when editing. Furthermore, Wikipedia will
automatically change the old code points into the new ones.

I did some more reading and I think I understand where this glyph substitution
idea came from. Even after the new code points were created, the Unicode
standard recommended the use of the comma glyphs for Romanian to represent the
cedilla code points. This is what Unicode 5.2 (October 2009) says:

"The form with the cedilla is preferred in Turkish, and the form with the comma
below is preferred in Romanian. The characters with explicit commas below are
provided to permit the distinction from characters with a cedilla."

This recommendation about forms/glyphs was only removed in Unicode 6 (October
2010), which states:

"The Unicode Standard provides unambiguous representations for all of the
forms, for example, U+0219 ș latin small letter s with comma below versus
U+015F ş latin small letter s with cedilla. In modern usage, the preferred
representation of Romanian text is with U+0219 ș latin small letter s with
comma below, while Turkish data is represented with U+015F ş latin small letter
s with cedilla."

[1] http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Diacriticele_vechi_%C8%99i_noi

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