30 Apr
2013
30 Apr
'13
7:32 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:28:20PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
thinking of it: one reason why a general purpose word processor used by people with no idea about things like ligatures, is that ligatures are language dependent
I don't think that's necessary relevant: the only example I can think of language-dependent ligatures is fi and ffi for Turkish and other languages that use the dotless i (ı, U+0131), because removing the dot on the i would be confusing in that case; but that's really all. All other ligatures depend on the font.
The Germans do not like ligatures across compound words, and that is much harder to do in an automated way (not in fonts themselves at least). Regards, Khaled