On 28 Jul 2010, at 18:09, Murray Sargent wrote:

> Contextual rendering is getting to be more common thanks to adoption of 
> OpenType features. For example, both MS Publisher 2010 and MS Word 2010 
> support various contextually dependent OpenType features at the user's 
> discretion. The choice of glyph for U+002E could be chosen according to an 
> OpenType style. 
> 
> It's worth remembering that plain text is a format that was introduced due to 
> the limitations of early computers. Books have always been rendered with at 
> least some degree of rich text. And due to the complexity of Unicode, even 
> Unicode plain text often needs to be rendered with more than one font.

Are or will be OT features supported in, say, filenames?

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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