On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:13:04 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> Am 2016-10-22 um 10:53 schrieb Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus: > > Maybe you mean ligatures? Many languages have them, even German: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature > > I thought that ligatures are just a matter of the font > but not the unicode representation? > When I write a text which contains the two letters "fi" > they should be two separate characters in my unicode string > no matter whether they will be printed as a ligature on the printer or > screen. > So ligatures should not influence string encoding in FPC. > Or am I missing something here? Ligatures are a group of different issues. The "fi" ligature is a "stylistic ligature", aka just a font issue and as such is always represented by the two Unicode codepoints. The wiki page describes various other types of ligatures, where the Unicode representation can vary. Languages don't care about programmers. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
