John Hudson scripsit: > I'm well aware of the particular needs of ligation in German, but I don't > think using ZWJ/ZWNJ in the text string is a good solution. Are you really > expecting German users to type in this way? What are the expectations of > German spellchecking, sorting anfd searching in regard to text littered > with ZWJ/ZWNJ?
Unicodely proper searching, sorting, and equality comparison generally (of which spellchecking is a special case) should always ignore ZW(N)J anyway. > It seems to me that what German typesetting needs is a way to link > dictionary support to layout features, so that this stuff can be handled > automatically. Not a small effort, given the German tendency to adhocopencompoundingonthefly. -- One art / There is John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No less / No more http://www.reutershealth.com All things / To do http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With sparks / Galore -- Douglas Hofstadter
