Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-07-04 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:59:18 +0200 Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: 2011/7/1 Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com: 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

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-07-01 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 04:22:59 +0200 Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: 2011/7/1 Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com: 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

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

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 01:57:46 +0200 Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr 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'

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
2011/7/1 Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com: On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 01:57:46 +0200 Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr 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

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-29 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:49:42 + Peter Constable peter...@microsoft.com 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

Re: ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-29 Thread Andrew Cunningham
On 30 June 2011 07:59, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:49:42 + Peter Constable peter...@microsoft.com 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

ch ligature in a monospace font

2011-06-28 Thread Jean-François Colson
Hello again. In the Breton language (a Celtic regional language spoken by approximately 200,000 persons in France), there are a digraph and a trigraph which, although they are not included in Unicode, are considered as separate letters. Those letters are CH Ch ch and C’H C’h c’h. They are

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

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