There were once a number of ligatures in wide use, but æ|Æ and œ|Œ are the only ones still in significant current use, particularly in modern French and classical Latin.
The important thing to remember about such ligatures is that they are single SBCS values having just one eight-bit code point/rank. --jg On 1/8/12, Andreas Geissbuehler <afg0...@videotron.ca> wrote: > Original Message Michael McCawley >> My presumption (based on previous discussions) is that "lacunć" may be an >> alternate presentation of "lancune" > > Non, pas du tout! This word gets an 's' slapped on the end but nothing > above. > This code page crap has caused *me* grief time and again and no end in > sight... > > Andreas F. Geissbuehler > AFG Consultants Inc. > http://www.afgc-inc.com/ > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
