Re: font encoding morass

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From: dhosek
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 05:52

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In article <71384@apple.Apple.COM> opstad@Apple.COM (David Opstad) writes:

>Unicode encodes meaning. Ligatures are inappropriate in this context.

Now the copy I have of Unicode is a draft, so this may have
changed since initial publication, but I have a morass (such a
lovely word) of Arabic ligatures in codes FE80-FEFC. Any argument
that allows for final beh to be included must also allow for a
f-i ligature in Latin alphabet typesetting. 

-dh

(Time to duck and cover, I'd say. But before someone turns on the
ol' flamethrower, it would be best to make sure that the "Basic
Glyphs for Arabic Language" is in the final draft.)

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