Re: The golden ligatures collection ct ligature code in use. (derives from Re: Unicode and the digital divide.)

From: Philipp Reichmuth (uzsv2k@uni-bonn.de)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 18:39:46 EDT


JK> Ease of entry might not be the best argument here. ZWJ still has
JK> to be entered.

I'm probably spoilt by Arabic software where you can just enter
ZWJ/ZWNJ. :-(

Using ZWJ for ligation is a not really a clean thing, though. Manual
ligation should be kept to the markup level. Give me a font with "ct"
in it and the option for turning automatic substitution on/off, and
I'll be happy. :-)

JK> The use of ZWJ breaks search and replace just like using PUA.

Is there a standard way to handle ZWJ/ZWNJ in sorting & searching? I
think in quite a lot of situations and/or scripts it would be feasible
just to ignore ZWJ (or give the user the choice to ignore it).
Especially in a Latin context.

  Philipp



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