I am confused, Zdeněk :
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
Not the font, only the language.
but in your earlier message you wrote "IMHO it should be a property of a font, not of a typesetting system."
So I am not at all clear what you are advocating : are you saying that it should be (a) a static property of any font to be used exclusively for French (b) a dynamic (user-selectable) property of any font to be used non-exclusively for French (c) a property of a "language", as defined by packages such as Babel or Polyglossia, or (d) something else ? I pass over the discussion on active characters (because those problems are well understood) and on LuaTeX (because I would like a solution that can be used with XeTeX). ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex