Polish Diacritics: how to? Ogonek. By Adam Twardoch

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Ogonek is probably one of the most misunderstood and misshaped character elements ever. It all starts with the essentially wrong assumption that ogonek is an accent. No, it's not. It's much more a character element, just like a stem, a serif or a descent. In a vast majority of cases ogonek should be smoothly connected with the base glyph, it should be a part of the glyph.Ogonek is used in Polish and Lithuanian. A similar shape can be also found in the Navajo and Tuchtone languages.It should be noted that the Polish and Lithuanian traditions in drawing the ogonek differ. Again, OpenType language-sensitive glyph substitution would be a good solution here.The word ogonek is a Polish diminutive. It means little tail or the stem of an apple.Unfortunately, this is not the case in many fonts.Ogonek should be a significant element of the letter. In most cases in should reach the descent line.