At 11:34 -0600 2002-06-30, John H. Jenkins wrote: > >Remember, Unicode is aiming at encoding *plain text*. For the bulk >of Latin-based languages, ligation control is simply not a matter of >*plain text*-that is, the message is still perfectly correct whether >ligatures are on or off. There are some exceptional cases. The >ZWJ/ZWNJ is available for such exceptional cases.
In my paper http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2317.pdf I raised a lot of questions about exceptions and the use of these. I don't think they were ever all answered.My other papers, N2141 and N2147, show a number of examples of ligation which is not particularly predictable. That's what ZWJ us supposed to be for. "Ligation is a normal if sometimes unpredictable feature in the following European scripts: Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Ogham, Old Church Slavonic, Old Hungarian, Runic." -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
