Thomas Lotze scripsit:

> the alphabetic presentation forms starting at UFB00 contain a number of
> ligatures for latin scripts, among them the more common ones like fi and
> fl, but also rather exotic ones like st.

Those exist basically for compatibility and round-tripping with non-Unicode
character sets.  Their use is discouraged.  No more will be encoded.

(FAQkeeper, this or something like it should go in the Unicode FAQ.
The ligature_digraph page doesn't really address the question directly.)

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