William Overington wrote,
> Is a digraph exactly the same as a ligature, or is there some difference
> please?
A digraph is a string of letters consisting of two letters. A
ligature is a special presentation form of a string where the
letters connect in some fashion.
Some digraphs have been directly encoded in Unicode. Many
consider that such direct encoding of strings was an error.
Some people consider some ligatures to be distinct characters
(in the dictionary sense of the word). In some alphabets, some
digraphs are considered to be distict letters.
Spanish considers the string "ll" to be a distinct letter. It remains,
however, only a string.
Best regards,
James Kass.
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