From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 08:59:47 EST
Thomas Lotze scripsit:
> the alphabetic presentation forms starting at UFB00 contain a number of
> ligatures for latin scripts, among them the more common ones like fi and
> fl, but also rather exotic ones like st.
Those exist basically for compatibility and round-tripping with non-Unicode
character sets. Their use is discouraged. No more will be encoded.
(FAQkeeper, this or something like it should go in the Unicode FAQ.
The ligature_digraph page doesn't really address the question directly.)
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