JK> Ease of entry might not be the best argument here. ZWJ still has JK> to be entered.
I'm probably spoilt by Arabic software where you can just enter ZWJ/ZWNJ. :-( Using ZWJ for ligation is a not really a clean thing, though. Manual ligation should be kept to the markup level. Give me a font with "ct" in it and the option for turning automatic substitution on/off, and I'll be happy. :-) JK> The use of ZWJ breaks search and replace just like using PUA. Is there a standard way to handle ZWJ/ZWNJ in sorting & searching? I think in quite a lot of situations and/or scripts it would be feasible just to ignore ZWJ (or give the user the choice to ignore it). Especially in a Latin context. Philipp
