Re: Latin ligatures and Unicode

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 14:12:41 EST


Ar 10:45 -0800 1999-12-20, scríobh John Cowan:

>Unless rendering processes are forbidden to ligature without a ZWL,
>then a ZWNL is also needed in order to block ligaturing "fi" in
>Turkish, etc.

Is this likely? I wasn't aware that any of the ZW characters were
obligatory. But I assume that f+ZWL+i = fi-ligature and f+i = unligated fi.

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