. William Overington wrote, > I find it strange that the Unicode Standard does not codify the > ligatures which can be produced with the languages of the Indian > subcontinent at display time using specific sequences of regular > Unicode characters so that someone skilled in the art of font design > may design a font from the code charts.
"Codify" means to arrange systematically, and no one should think that William is suggesting that such glyphs be encoded. Quoting from Unicode's page at: http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html <quote> The Unicode Consortium is interested in obtaining information on known glyphs, minor variants, precomposed characters (including ligatures, conjunct consonants, and accented characters) and other such "non-characters," mainly for cataloging and research purposes; however, they are generally not acceptable for character proposals. <end quote> As long as Unicode is obtaining this information, it would be helpful if it could be published. Best regards, James Kass .
