From: Pim Blokland (pblokland@planet.nl)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 06:26:22 EST
John Cowan schreef:
> Digraphs and ligatures are both made by combining two glyphs. In a
digraph,
> the glyphs remain separate but are placed close together. In a ligature,
> the glyphs are fused into a single glyph.
Oh, in that case I must say I think the UnicodeData.txt file doesn't do a
very good job.
For instance, the Danish ae (U+00E6) is not designated a ligature, but the
Dutch ij (U+0133) is, even though the "a" and "e" are clearly fused
together, while the "i" and "j" aren't.
Pim Blokland
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