Re: In defense of Plane 14 language tags (long)

From: Timothy Partridge (timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 14:57:13 EST

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Doug Ewell recently said:

> 1. Language tags may be useful for display issues.

Another use for language tagging is the correct formation of ligatures. E.g.
fi ligature is fine in English, but causes problems in Turkish because of
confusion with undotted i.

Tim

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