Comment 11 for bug 609289

@Mark: There are many fonts containing a few Greek letters that have identical "glyphs" with Latin characters. In fact 15 Greek letters have almost always identical glyphs with latin ones [1]. This is expected since the Latin alphabet is a "fork" :-) of the Greek one and the two evolved in close contact for many centuries.

This is not a problem in 99.9% of the time because you know if the letter is supposed to be a Greek or Latin one depending on the context. Ambiguity between characters of the same alphabet are a bit more troubling and should be avoided if possible (hence my previous complain on the new glyphs of ν and γ)

PS: A huge *thank you* for your work with Ubuntu is an understatement of my feelings :)
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notes:
[1] I'm talking about A,B,E,Z,H,I,K,M,N,O,P,T,Y,X,o)