At 17:34 -0400 2002-06-30, John Cowan wrote: >John H. Jenkins scripsit: > >> And isn't there a language used quite a bit just south of the English >> channel for which Latin-1 isn't really adequate? A minor, obscure >> language, I think. Fr-something. > >What's the problem? Y with diaeresis is a most marginal letter, and >oe-ligature is a mandatory ligature in French, and thus ought to be >done automatically by a well-tuned French font, no?
You're saying you'd prefer to not to use the encoded �? I don't think that's a good idea somehow. And there are certainly instances where oe are not ligated, such as the name Goethe, which certainly could appear in a French text. This one, I think should be encoded when it is wanted and not when it is not. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
