Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> But they're very confusing > for both users and developers. > For English ligatures (optional ligatures) I would > suggest an inline <ligate> tag which would do nothing > if put around non-ligatable characters. A <noligate> > tag also if we decide to go with an "auto-ligate" > option. One advantage of using ZWJ/ZWNJ is that they get exported correctly automatically when exporting to Unicode-aware fileformats. And according to W3C & The Unicode C., they *are* suitable for use in markup languages / XML <URL: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr20/#Format >. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer
