On 07/06/2011 04:23 PM, Ken Whistler wrote:
I'm not sure whether the FB05/FB06 instance is important enough to add
or not. Neither of those compabitility ligatures should ordinarily be used
in text, anyway ...
--Ken
I'm wondering what other characters might not ordinarily be used in
text,
Den 2011-09-09 21:24, skrev Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com:
On 07/06/2011 04:23 PM, Ken Whistler wrote:
I'm not sure whether the FB05/FB06 instance is important enough to add
or not. Neither of those compabitility ligatures should ordinarily be used
in text, anyway ...
--Ken
Pardon my asking, as this is not my specialty:
There are several other ligatures
that *should* be formed (automatically) by run of the mill fonts:
for instance the fj ligature, just to mention one that I find
particularly important (and that does not have a compatibility code
point).
About
I figure out that Unicode has not addressed the sovereignty issues of a
language while trying to devise an ASCII like encoding system for almost all
the characters and symbols used on earth. I am continuing with my observation
of the glaring mistake done by Unicode by naming a South Asian
I was talking about purely typographic ligatures, in particular
ligatures used because the glyphs (normally spaced) would otherwise
overlap in an unpleasing manner. If the glyphs don't overlap (or
there is extra spacing, which is quite ugly in itself if used in
normal text), no need to use a
On 09/09/2011 02:36 PM, Kent Karlsson wrote:
Den 2011-09-09 21:24, skrev Karl Williamsonpub...@khwilliamson.com:
On 07/06/2011 04:23 PM, Ken Whistler wrote:
I'm not sure whether the FB05/FB06 instance is important enough to add
or not. Neither of those compabitility ligatures should
Oh, my apologies.
In that case, CaseFolding.txt (from the Unicode character database) says:
FB05; F; 0073 0074; # LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T
FB06; F; 0073 0074; # LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST
which seems rather straightforward...
/Kent K
Den 2011-09-10 01:25, skrev Karl Williamson
You appear to be assuming that Unicode lists languages. It does not. It deals
with characters and scripts. As mentioned before, it does not attempt to
document all possible and preferred ways to refer to characters or scripts;
that is well beyond the scope, purpose and requirements. All that
Actually, I *was* talking about purely typographic/aesthetic ligatures
as well. I'm aware that which di-/trigraphs need to be considered from a
font design perspective is language-dependent. But the point is that I
observe that:
(a) aesthetic ligatures are not frequently seen in modern German
Den 2011-09-10 02:32, skrev Stephan Stiller sstil...@stanford.edu:
Actually, I *was* talking about purely typographic/aesthetic ligatures as
well. I'm aware that which di-/trigraphs need to be considered from a font
design perspective is language-dependent. But the point is that I
Den 2011-09-10 00:53, skrev delex r del...@indiatimes.com:
I figure out that Unicode has not addressed the sovereignty issues of a
language
Which, I daresay, is irrelevant from a *character* encoding perspective.
while trying to devise an ASCII like encoding system for almost all
the
Actually, I *was* talking about purely typographic/aesthetic
ligatures as well. I'm aware that which di-/trigraphs need to be
considered from a font design perspective is language-dependent.
But the point is that I observe that:
(a) aesthetic ligatures are not frequently
English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, and
Polish are all different languages. Each has its own pronunciation, vocabulary,
orthography, national identity, and rich literary tradition.
Would you suggest that the letters used in each of these languages should be
On 2011/09/10 9:32, Stephan Stiller wrote:
Actually, I *was* talking about purely typographic/aesthetic ligatures
as well. I'm aware that which di-/trigraphs need to be considered from a
font design perspective is language-dependent.
And this language-dependence is not only a question of
Dear Martin,
Thanks for alerting me to the issue of causal direction of aesthetic
preference - it's been on my mind, but your reply helps me sort out some
details.
When I first encountered text (outside of the German language locale)
with ample use of ligatures in modern printed text, I
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