Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-07-04 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:59:18 +0200 Philippe Verdy wrote: > 2011/7/1 Richard Wordingham : > > I wonder if anyone has some statistics on the use of CGJ.  Its > > revised intended use was to disrupt collating sequences, but you > > may be right about its most frequent use being to disrupt canonical >

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-07-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
2011/7/1 Richard Wordingham : > I wonder if anyone has some statistics on the use of CGJ.  Its revised > intended use was to disrupt collating sequences, but you may be right > about its most frequent use being to disrupt canonical reordering.  A > few years ago I concluded it wasn't yet safe to ty

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-07-01 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 04:22:59 +0200 Philippe Verdy wrote: > 2011/7/1 Richard Wordingham : > > Its main purpose is to indicate that a sequence of characters do > > not form a collating unit.  However, if one is using a 'monospace' > > font to space 'letters' uniformly, i.e. to space collating > > s

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
2011/7/1 Richard Wordingham : > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 01:57:46 +0200 > Philippe Verdy wrote: > >> CGJ is NOT made to create (or even hint) ligatures ; and certainly not >> in this context. > > Its main purpose is to indicate that a sequence of characters do > not form a collating unit.  However, if o

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 01:57:46 +0200 Philippe Verdy wrote: > CGJ is NOT made to create (or even hint) ligatures ; and certainly not > in this context. Its main purpose is to indicate that a sequence of characters do not form a collating unit. However, if one is using a 'monospace' font to space 'l

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
CGJ is NOT made to create (or even hint) ligatures ; and certainly not in this context. Anyway, there's not need for such ligatures in Breton, except in very limited contexts (even in crosswords, you would encode the digram CH or trigram C’H directly in each square, even for vertical words, but ev

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-29 Thread Andrew Cunningham
On 30 June 2011 07:59, Richard Wordingham wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:49:42 + > Peter Constable wrote: >> >> That would appear to be a limitation of the input method. > > It is indeed a limitation of X.  I get round it on Ubuntu by using > IBus and KMFL (Keyman for Linux), which then allo

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-29 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:49:42 + Peter Constable wrote: > From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] > On Behalf Of Jean-François Colson > > > * In the C’HWERTY layout on Linux, the digraph and trigraph had to > > be replaced by six PUA characters > > That would app

RE: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Constable
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Jean-François Colson > * In the C’HWERTY layout on Linux, the digraph and trigraph had to be > replaced > by six PUA characters That would appear to be a limitation of the input method. In principle, there's no

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-28 Thread John H. Jenkins
On 28 Jun, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Jean-François Colson wrote: > * In the C’HWERTY layout on Linux, the digraph and trigraph had to be > replaced by six PUA characters and an input method such as xim must be used > to get the correct character sequences. Since they are PUA characters, those > subst