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Rendered in 24pt Regular

Sample Glyphs:

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Description:

(I capitalise PERISPOMENI, as it is a convention in Unicode. I am not shouting :-).
(I mentioned the following issue to Bruno already at http://design.canonical.com/2010/09/it%E2%80%99s-all-about-greek/comment-page-1/#comment-3515 
so I am just creating the report for completeness).

>From the Greek Extended Unicode block - http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F00.pdf
letters that have PERISPOMENI (tilde character over the main letter) are shown to have an inverted breve (upside down cup).

The inverted breve is found in some fonts, however it is not common at
all in Greece and Greek.

The sample font at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F00.pdf shows correctly PERISPOMENI (tilde) 
All Greek fonts such as those from the Greek Font Society (http://greekfontsociety.gr/) use tilde for PERISPOMENI.

You can try out the GFS fonts in Ubuntu with

sudo apt-get install ttf-gfs-artemisia ttf-gfs-baskerville ttf-gfs-
bodoni-classic ttf-gfs-complutum ttf-gfs-didot ttf-gfs-didot-classic
ttf-gfs-gazis ttf-gfs-neohellenic ttf-gfs-olga ttf-gfs-porson ttf-gfs-
solomos ttf-gfs-theokritos

See also screenshots at http://simos.info/blog/archives/1144
(they compare between DejaVu Sans and Ubuntu Font Beta).

UA String:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100716
Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.7

** Affects: ubuntu-font-family
     Importance: Low
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: tff-document-rationale ttf-diacritical ttf-greek ttf-style
-- 
Style: Greek: document rationale for design of PERISPOMENI accent (tilde vs. inverted breve)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646069
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