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Article #714Re: Unicode and ligatures (was Re: font encoding morass)
From: Robert McMillin
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 22:59
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 22:59
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bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes: > > In article <665@manutius.UUCP> nickn@manutius.UUCP (Nick Nussbaum) writes: > > .... > > ah.. but the UNICODE revisions will include a large number of arabic > ligatures. And upon request of the National body it will include a large > number of Korean Hangul composite characters. In fact, it seems it will > include ligatures from any non-European script. It won't include a large > set of European ligatures though. Just some. > > Now that is REALLY logical: ligatures in some languages ARE characters and > hence should be in UNICODE, while those in other (fi fl ff ffi ffl) are not. > Seems to me we need a `National Body' to lobby for us to rectify this mistake This is something of a basic question, but in Spanish, does anyone know whether 'll' is done as a ligature or as two letters and hang the results on alpha sorts?
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