Font support tests

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I tested some widely available open-source/libre fonts to see which of them best support Cypriot Greek consonant modifiers. Currently, Mozilla’s font Fira Sans has the best support.

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DejaVu Sans

Song lyrics in Cypriot Greek as displayed by the font DejaVu Sans

Good: Breve, Caron

Bad: Subscript-iota

Fira Sans

Song lyrics in Cypriot Greek as displayed by the font Fira Sans

Good: Breve, Caron, Subscript-iota in oblique

Bad: Subscript-iota in italics

Gentium

Song lyrics in Cypriot Greek as displayed by the font Gentium

Good: Breve, Caron

Bad: Subscript-iota

MgOpen Moderna

Song lyrics in Cypriot Greek as displayed by the font MgOpen Modernaium

Good: Breve, Caron

Bad: Subscript-iota

New Athena Unicode

Song lyrics in Cypriot Greek as displayed by the font MgOpen Modernaium

Good: Breve, Caron

Bad: Subscript-iota


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