Re: Dutch IJ & the austrian stamp's encoding

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 06:49:03 CST

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"Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net> writes:

> The word "ligature" (from the Latin ligatus, "bound together")
> literally means the glyphs are visually connected. Examples of this
> include the connected appearance of the combinations fi, fl, and ff
> in fine typography.

How to call of a single letter consisting of several glyphs?

I suppose Dutch IJ is similar Cyrillic letter yeru, which also evolved
from a sequence of two letters, but is now considered a single letter
wrt. spacing, crosswords etc.

The difference is that yeru is always encoded as a single unit, and
that its second part is no longer a standalone letter in Russian.

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