At 17:34 -0400 2002-06-30, John Cowan wrote:
>John H. Jenkins scripsit:
>
>> And isn't there a language used quite a bit just south of the English
>> channel for which Latin-1 isn't really adequate? A minor, obscure
>> language, I think. Fr-something.
>
>What's the problem? Y with diaeresis is a most marginal letter, and
>oe-ligature is a mandatory ligature in French, and thus ought to be
>done automatically by a well-tuned French font, no?
You're saying you'd prefer to not to use the encoded ¦? I don't think
that's a good idea somehow. And there are certainly instances where
oe are not ligated, such as the name Goethe, which certainly could
appear in a French text. This one, I think should be encoded when it
is wanted and not when it is not.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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