From: Werner LEMBERG (wl@gnu.org)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 02:45:42 CST
> > What seems silly to me is devising rules for ligation based on a
> > particular style of writing and then insisting that those rules
> > also apply for all other styles of writing of a given language.
>
> Well, that's what those "silly" Germans have done. [...]
>
> Sometimes, the differences are in your face (French spacing around
> punctuation) sometimes they are subtle (angle of accents
> French/Polish, ligation in German/Dutch etc.). But they are real
> and they exist.
Amen.
Werner
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