On Jan 8, 2012, at 22:48, robin wrote: > From: "John Gilmore" > Sent: Monday, 9 January 2012 1:27 PM > > >> 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. > And, for metal typesetting, "ff", "ffi", "ffl", "fi", and "fl", which are supposed to collate as their expansions. Would German require "fff" and more for such as "dampfschifffahrt"? (sp?)
> As well as those, 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, and 7/8 (as single characters, arranged > vertically), > were also in the typesetter's set of fonts. > I wonder where these collate? Are they in Unicode? >> The important thing to remember about such ligatures is that they are >> single SBCS values having just one eight-bit code point/rank. -- gil
