Re: Ie abbreviation character

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 09:00:08 EDT


At 14:46 +0200 2002-04-30, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>Hmmm. I accept Marco's statement that while it's a single symbol, it
>doesn't necessarily have to be a single character. What is the rule
>for deciding whether a single symbol needs one or more characters?

You use your common sense. Obviously this is a string of a letter
followed by a punctuation mark.

>What happens if I find a font that has this as a single character, for
>example?

Decompose it.

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