On 1/9/2012 6:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Jan 8, 2012, at 22:48, robin wrote:
From: "John Gilmore"
Sent: Monday, 9 January 2012 1:27 PM
There were once a number of ligatures in wide use, but æ|Æ and œ|Œ
are the only ones still in significant current use, particularly in
modern French and classical Latin.
And, for metal typesetting, "ff", "ffi", "ffl", "fi", and "fl",
which are supposed to collate as their expansions. Would German
require "fff" and more for such as "dampfschifffahrt"? (sp?)
As well as those, 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, and 7/8 (as single characters, arranged
vertically),
were also in the typesetter's set of fonts.
I wonder where these collate? Are they in Unicode?
ligatures:
AE = x'00C6' ae = x'00E6' OE = x'0152' oe = x'0153'
OI = x'01A2' oi = x'01A3'
plus a number of characters in categories like
"Croation digraphs matching Serbian Cyrillic letters"
Fractions:
1/4 = x'00BC' 1/2 = x'00BD' 3/4 = x'00BE'
I don't see any others in the code charts.
The important thing to remember about such ligatures is that they are
single SBCS values having just one eight-bit code point/rank.
-- gil
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