Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 10:01:47 EST

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    If you (or anyone else) have an idea for a Q&A for the FAQ, just write it up
    and submit it on http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reporting.html.

    I see a great many promising Q&A's go by on this list; it would really help
    to get some volunteers to clean them up a bit and submit them. (They don't
    have to be formatted; just plain text in the style of any of the existing
    Q&A's.)

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
    To: "Thomas Lotze" <thomas.lotze@uni-jena.de>
    Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 05:59
    Subject: Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

    > Thomas Lotze scripsit:
    >
    > > the alphabetic presentation forms starting at UFB00 contain a number of
    > > ligatures for latin scripts, among them the more common ones like fi and
    > > fl, but also rather exotic ones like st.
    >
    > Those exist basically for compatibility and round-tripping with
    non-Unicode
    > character sets. Their use is discouraged. No more will be encoded.
    >
    > (FAQkeeper, this or something like it should go in the Unicode FAQ.
    > The ligature_digraph page doesn't really address the question directly.)
    >
    > --
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    >

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