Re: Medievalist ligature character in the PUA

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Mon Dec 14 2009 - 23:04:26 CST

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    "verdy_p" <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:

    > "John H. Jenkins"
    >> The Latin ligatures that are already there are for round-trip
    >> compatibility *only*.
    >
    > NOT *only*. There are ligatures that were encoded because they are
    > considered as unbreakable letters in some languages or as unbreakable
    > symbols. In which case they are treated as distinct.
    >
    > See æ (from an old ligature of "ae"), Æ (from an old ligature of
    > "AE"), œ (from an old ligature of "oe"), Œ (from an old ligature of
    > "OE"), & (from an old ligature of "et"), ß (from an old ligature of
    > "ſs" or "ſz").

    I kind of assumed John was referring to the ligatures which are
    stylistic in nature only, such as ff and fi and fl and ffi and ffl and ſt and st. 

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