[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 106488] Incorrect localized lowercase Cyrillic BE for Macedonian and Serbian language

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--- Comment #3 from Dimitrij Mijoski <dmjpp at hotmail.com> ---
That source is obviously incorrect, that is why I filled this bug report. I
cited much more reliable sources.

I analyzed this a further bit and came to this:

For Macedonian, the delta look has never ever been used historically or in
printed practice. Even in italic. It is only handwritten lowercase BE that look
a little bit like the delta. I can cite you as much as you want books,
textbooks, grammars, orthographies and dictionaries.

For Serbian the delta look may have been used historically, but in practice the
six look is used.

I have found one another site which is somewhat closer than wikipedia 

https://localfonts.eu/typography-basics/fonts-the-importance-of-localisation/local-features/serbian-cyrillic-feature-locl/

https://localfonts.eu/typography-basics/fonts-the-importance-of-localisation/local-features/macedonian-cyrillic-feature-locl/

But even these have missing stuff, e.g. they miss Cyrillic GJE in italic ѓ.

For Macedonian, I can confirm:

1. Regular, Bold, Oblique don't need any localization
2. Italic needs localized shapes for the following chars:
д г ѓ п т, and б may be optionally localized only in italic.

The design of lowercase italic г and ѓ should not be based on latin italic i,
but on italic ш by taking the leftmost arc and adding the macron diacritic for
Г and both macron and acute accent for Ѓ.

All this is true for Serbian, with the possibility that lowercase BE should be
localized in regular. But as I said, even Serbian readers are more accustomed
to the standard six shape.

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