Re: Ligatures in Turkish and Azeri, was: Accented ij ligatures

From: Laurentiu Iancu (iancu@ufl.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 15:48:48 EDT

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    See also
    http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/opentype/detail.htm
    which explains how ligatures can be turned off on a language-dependent basis.

    Laurentiu

    Peter Kirk asked:

    > In Turkish and Azeri the sequences f - i and f - dotless i both occur,
    > and are fairly frequent. So it is inappropriate in these languages to
    > use fi ligatures in which the dot on the i is lost or invisible, at
    > least where the second character is a dotted i. Has any thought been
    > given to this issue? Is it possible to block such ligation on a
    > language-dependent basis?

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