Den 2011-09-10 23:06, skrev "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wording...@ntlworld.com>:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:19:27 +0200 > Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsso...@telia.com> wrote: > >> >> Den 2011-09-10 20:58, skrev "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi>: >> >>> According to Oxford Style >>> Manual, one should not use the fi ligature in Turkish, as that >>> would obscure the distinction between normal i and dotless i (). > >> It does not make perfect sense to me. Rather that: > > I believe the point is that the glyph of fi U+FB01 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE > FI Which is a character that should not be use for any language. Typographic ligatures (if any) should be formed automatically by the font (and font handling system). > is unsuitable for Turkish because it is normally undotted, or at > least, the dot is barely visible. (Confusingly, my e-mail client chooses > a dotted glyph!) IMO, a glyph (if any) for that compatibility character should look *exactly* like an "fi" (after automatic ligature formation, if that is done for "fi") in the font used. So if no ligature for "fi" is formed, the glyph for U+FB01 (if any) should have a dot just like "fi" would have a dot. (I know, this is not commonly the case at the moment.) /Kent K > Richard. > >