# Yolanda

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**Created:** [February 14, 2008, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/yolanda/1969 "2008-02-14T12:17:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/yolanda/1969/5 "2008-02-21T11:52:29Z")

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> [@Dave Crosby](#):
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> What really worried me is how do you add an ogonek to that long tailed g?

The character to which Dave is referring might be this one.

U+0123 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH CEDILLA

However, it is not a cedilla it is a comma. The Postscript name is gcommaaccent.

The Unicode code chart has an example of how one may deal with the possible conflict of a comma below with the tail of a lowercase g.

> **[U0100.pdf](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0100.pdf)**
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> 254.98 KB

The document states “there are three major glyph variants”.

The character is used in the Latvian language. I do not know the Latvian language yet I have supported it in some of my fonts, as I mention in the following thread.

> [@Latvian](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/latvian/1000/1):
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> A recent thread in the Unicode mailing list, August 2005 archive, on Latvian reminded me of the 1 May 2004 when 10 countries joined the European Union, bringing the membership up to 25 countries. [http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch](http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch) A lady from Latvia was interviewed and she was saying that it was important that the Latvian language be continued in use, also saying that Latvian is an ancient language. This got me interested in the idea of supporting Latvian in fonts. I already try to support Old…

William Overington

21 February 2008

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