Re: Latin ligatures and Unicode

From: peter_constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Dec 28 1999 - 10:29:37 EST

       Arno Schmitt wrote:
>For German -- both Roman/Antiqua and Blackletter/Fraktur --
       rendering software that can handle hyphenation can handle
       ligation.
       There is a rule (and an exception):
       Where hyphenation is possible (where a soft hyphen is placed by
       the user or the hyphention program), ligation is not allowed...

       Good point. One question, though: how can a hyphenation
       algorithm know where to hyphenate "wachstube"?

       Peter

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