Release v4.100 (official release)

Lorna | 31 January 2007

This version supports Unicode 5.0!

This official release includes the following changes:

New features:
- Open o alternate (affects: U+1D97 , U+1D53 , U+1D10 , U+0186 , U+0254 )
- Chinantec tones (affects: U+02C8 MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE, U+02C9 MODIFIER LETTER MACRON, U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT, U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT
- 9-level pitches (affects: U+F1F1, U+F1F2, U+F1F3, U+F1F4, U+F1F5, U+F1F6, U+F1F7, U+F1F8, U+F1F9, U+0020 SPACE). See also Pitch Contours document.
Design changes:
- Tone bars no longer limited to 3 sequences (new for OT)
- Placement of ogonek on U and u corrected.
- U+02BE MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING and U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING (added attachment points)
- U+031A COMBINING LEFT ANGLE ABOVE (removed attachment point)
- U+04AA CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER (direction of hook corrected)
- U+04AB CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER (direction of hook corrected)
- U+0427 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE (character has been widened)
- U+04B6 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE WITH DESCENDER (character has been widened)
- U+04B8 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE WITH VERTICAL STROKE (character has been widened)
- U+04CB CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KHAKASSIAN CHE (character has been widened)
- U+04F4 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE WITH DIAERESIS (character has been widened)
- U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA (added serifs)
- U+1D66 GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BETA (added serifs)
- U+1D5D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL BETA (added serifs)
- U+F1E7 MODIFIER LETTER LOW CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT (shifted up)
- U+F1E8 MODIFIER LETTER LOW CARON (shifted up)
- made underlining of text thicker and shifted down
- Modifier apostrophe alternates feature: added U+F26A
Added:
- Latin and Cyrillic Unicode 5.0 characters added and if they were already in SIL’s corporate PUA they are double-encoded.
- U+2053
- U+211F
- U+2123
- U+2308
- U+2309
- U+2423
- U+FE20..U+FE23 (positioning of these may not be perfect, use of U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE and U+0360 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE is preferred)
- PUA characters:
  - F17B COMBINING ALMOST EQUAL TO BELOW
  - F1F1 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH ONE
  - F1F2 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH TWO
  - F1F3 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH THREE
  - F1F4 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH FOUR
  - F1F5 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH FIVE
  - F1F6 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH SIX
  - F1F7 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH SEVEN
  - F1F8 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH EIGHT
  - F1F9 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH NINE
  - F266 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT
  - F267 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y WITH BELT
  - F268 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT
  - F269 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND HOOK
  - F26A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SALTILLO
Fixed bug in GSUB table to work in Pango

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