I think it's a bit of a stretch to propose that a rainbow flag is a "white flag" and "rainbow" ligature. That's certainly well beyond any understanding I have of what a ligature is, from a typographical perspective.
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 at 22:23 Pierpaolo Bernardi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Why would associating a flag and a rainbow this way means the flag will >> just be recolored (but the rainbox form itself is completely lost)? >> Couldn't this be to display a flying flag over a sky with a rainbow? >> Compare this to the association of the sun and the rainbow symbols, or the >> cloud and a rainbow (and compare to the sun or moon and a cloud associated >> the same way, or the association of two clouds: none of them will overlap >> completely). >> >> Imagine the use in a weather application, I don't wee why the rainbox >> would disappear when the flying flag is just there to mean the windy >> condition, and the rainbox meant for variable weather mixing rainy and >> sunny periods. >> >> Your proposed use of ZWJ to create a complete overlap of one symbol into >> another is unexpected. >> > > A ZWJ does not cause two random characters to overlap. It creates a > ligature, and the ligature can be rendered in any way the font designers > prefer. If there's a need for this character, font designers could agree > to render this ligature in the desired way. > > In case there's the need, the Unicode Consortium could hint at the > intended meaning of this ligature, I think? > >
