At 05:29 10/29/2002, William Overington wrote:
No, it would not. No more ligatures should be added to Unicode. Most of those that are already there, esp. the Arabic ligatures, should be deprecated. Ligature codepoints are totally unnecessary. They are counter to Unicode's character/glyph model. They fuck up important aspects of text processing such as sorting, searching and spellchecking. The only thing stupider than adding new ligatures to Unicode would be using Private Use Area codepoints for them, which super-fuck up text processing.Also, it is a pity that this new era of Unicode glasnost (displayed with a ligature? :-) ) comes so shortly after the last Unicode Technical Committee meeting the minutes of which state the consensus about no more ligatures being added to the U+FBxx block. Surely the matter of ligatures would be a good topic upon which to conduct such a public review.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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