Re: CGJ , RLM

[Philippe Verdy]

I'm not the one that proposed encoding a AE ligature with A+ZWJ+E. I just 
spoke about cases like true typographical ligatures like "ffi". I do know 
that AE or ae in French is better encoded with their distinct unique code, 
even if French consider this letter as two letters (which may justify the 
prefered encoding as A+ZWJ+E, for which no collation tailoring is needed).

The current practice in most French texts is to use either the two separate 
vowels A+E or a+e, or to use the separate codepoint for the ae letter or the 
AE letter (and then use tailored collation to sort the ae single letter and 
AE single letter with a+e and A+E, i.e. between a+e and a+f).

I've never seen any French text coded with A+ZWJ+E or a+ZWJ+e...
Same remark for the French oe and OE ligatures (which, like the ae and AE 
ligatures, are orthographic, not typographical like "ffi") that French also 
considers (i.e. collates, sorts) as two letters o+e or O+E.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Asmus Freytag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PS: since we have a perfectly fine AE as a character, there seems little 
gained in attempting a ligature. My suspicion would be that fonts would 
not provide the necessary mappings since the character code is available.