Hi, as I've learnt in the recent thread about ligatures, Unicode does not encode glyphs but characters. Ligatures and special glyphs to be used for a character at the end of a word are considered presentation forms and won't be encoded or at least deprecated.
Why is the long form of the small latin letter s considered a character in its own right? (It has UV 017F and is not deprecated, according to the glyph tables.) At least the way the two s are used in german, they seem to act like a classical pair of representation forms of one single character: if the long s is present in the font, it is used by default except at the end of a word or part of a compound word (and maybe some other cases like double s?). If it is not present, a round s is used everywhere. To me, is seems logical to have a round s at UV 0073 in fonts that have only one s shape, a long s at UV0073 in fonts that have both, and to use the round s as an alternate in the latter case. Moreover, the name "long s" seems to be more descriptive of the glyph, not the character. "Variant s" or "alternate s" would be better, but I'm aware that this cannot be changed anymore. I hope this is not just another stupid question; at least the long s is not mentioned in the FAQ. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Lotze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thomas-lotze.de/
