Handwritten cyrillic block letters

[James Kass]

On 2024-07-12 7:31 PM, autumn--- via Unicode wrote:
> Hello. I looked at the unicode cyrillic characters and I could not 
> find the characters I want so I wanted to ask if they could be added. 
> I don't know anything about fonts so I don't think I could do it 
> myself. I will describe the characters I want.
>
> When Д and Л are handwritten with block letters they have pointy tops. 
> Ʌ can be used for Л but to my knowledge there is nothing for Д so I 
> would really like if Д with a pounty top could be added. There are 
> also more. г can also be written like a backwards s. A lowercase д 
> looks like g and й looks like u with a line over it. I am not sure if 
> these could be added but I would like it if I could use these letters 
> in my documeht without needing to change the font to a font where they 
> look like this. Thanks

Quoting from:
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch01.pdf
... from "Characters and Glyphs" on page 7 of 9

"The difference between identifying a character and rendering it on 
screen or paper is crucial to understanding the Unicode Standard’s role 
in text processing. The character identified by a Unicode code point is 
an abstract entity, such as “LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A” or “BENGALI DIGIT 
FIVE”. The mark made on screen or paper, called a glyph, is a visual 
representation of the character.

"The Unicode Standard does not define glyph images. That is, the 
standard defines how characters are interpreted, not how glyphs are 
rendered. Ultimately, the software or hardware rendering engine of a 
computer is responsible for the appearance of the characters on the 
screen. The Unicode Standard does not specify the precise shape, size, 
or orientation of on-screen characters."

Variant glyphs of existing "atomic characters" aren't suitable for 
encoding.  So displaying a cursive form of Д (U+0414 CYRILLIC CAPITAL 
LETTER DE) can only be accomplished with a font switch.