On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:22:22PM +0000, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Hans Hagen wrote: > > > input shouldn't contain such ligatures and if it does, it might be with a > > purpose > > I cannot agree with the first part of that statement, although I do with > the second. In a Unicode world (into which we are emerging, > from a very long period in the Dark Ages), any character that is > in the Unicode character set must be valid in an input document.
Well, not as strong as invalid, but some characters (quite a few of them actually) ended up in Unicode for all the wrong reasons and people are strongly discouraged from using them in input, this is one of them. Regards, Khaled
