From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 13:28:33 EST
At 08:08 AM 3/14/2003, William Overington wrote:
>I find it strange that the
>Unicode Standard does not codify the ligatures which can be produced with
>the languages of the Indian subcontinent at display time using specific
>sequences of regular Unicode characters so that someone skilled in the art
>of font design may design a font from the code charts.
Someone skilled in the art of font design doesn't need to see all possible
ligatures reproduced in a code chart. Trust me, anyone designing typefaces
for Indic scripts understands the difference between a character and a glyph.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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or by force. - Michael Apostolis, 1467
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