On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:32:57PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote: > On 28 Jul 2010, at 21:25, Murray Sargent wrote: > > > Michael asks, "Are or will be OT features supported in, say, filenames?" > > The answer depends on the renderer. For example, if you display filenames > > in NotePad using the Calibri font, default English ligatures are used > > automatically using OpenType table info. > > I meant on the desktop or in the Finder or Explorer.
In GTK+ based applications (e.g. Gnome desktop in Linux) you get OpenType every where, including filenames in the file manager, it is limited to the feature that are on by default, though (i.e. no contextual alternates for Latin script). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
