On 10/07/2003 11:37, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
At Peter pointed out, however, it is neither expected or reasonable
to have to go back through and drop in ZWNJ's at every relevant
location in existing Turkish or Azeri text, simply to prevent
fi ligation. Such use of ZWNJ is intended to be exceptional,
to deal with special cases.
The general solutions depend either on use of fonts (or more
generally, renderers) which block such ligation across the
board. It is my understanding that modern font technologies
allow the choice of ligation to essentially be a style selection
for the font. How well various applications take advantage
of that and make the choice available easily to end users may
be an open issue still, but the fundamental pieces to do this
correctly are available.
Thank you, Ken. I think you get my point. I am not so interested in
character level mechaisms for disabling the ligature as in higher level
features. But I guess I am really thinking in terms of markup, so
outside the domain of Unicode, which might disable ligation.
--
Peter Kirk
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