On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:41:21AM -0700, John Cowan wrote:
> That is because your algorithm for combining glyphs (not characters)
> is naive. It needs to recognize i (not dotless) and j specially
> and remove their dots. TeX exposes too much underlying mechanism here.
I see it over and over again when I try to convince programmers to support
Unicode in their programs that they do not want to do it because it is too
much of a hassle.
I doubt I will sound more convincing to them when I tell them they need to
parse the fonts directly and remove dots from certain letters just because
it is cast in stone that Unicode only deals with characters, never with
glyphs...
If we don't KISS, many programmers will refuse to embrace us.
Adam
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