From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 00:53:28 CDT
Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:
> The situation is even more confused in that some Unicode characters,
> e.g. U+0152 LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE, are called LIGATUREs in their
> character names but are unambiguously single Unicode characters (e.g.
> they have no decomposition even for compatibility). (These are in
> addition to the characters named LIGATURE in the Alphabetic
> Presentation Forms block, which mostly have compatibility
> decompositions.)
The last thing you want to worry about is the correlation between
whether a character has the word LIGATURE in its name and whether it is
actually a ligature. That way lies madness.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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