Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote: > If I want to encode explicit ligatures for the "ffi" cluster, if it is > not hyphenated, I need to add ZWJ: > "ef"+ZWJ+SHY+"f"+ZWJ+"i"+SHY+"ca"+SHY+"ce" (1)
Great Scott! You can use ZWJ to suggest a ligation opportunity, and SHY to suggest a hyphenation opportunity, but if you need to suggest both within the same word, let alone *between the same pair of letters*, you have probably stepped over the plain-text line. > I am not sure if the string coded as (1) above has the expected > behavior, including for collation where it should still collate like > the unmarked word "efficace"... Collation is supposed to ignore formatting-type marks. In my copy of allkeys.txt, which may not be the latest, ZWJ is Completely Ignorable and CGJ is Level 3 Ignorable, so (1) should collate as you expect. Perhaps a better question to ask would be why you need to indicate both hyphenation points and ligation points in text that is going to be collated. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
