From: Addison Phillips [wM] (aphillips@webmethods.com)
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 19:08:41 CST
I suppose one could construct such a list, but using them to encode text is a Very Bad Idea. It is better, for example, to encode the "fi" ligature as the letter "f" followed by the letter "i" and let rendering software, fonts, and so forth provide the ligature. Encoding ligatures directly will make your life harder. For example, most spell checkers will fail the word "final" when it is spelled U+FB01 U+006E U+0061 U+006C (that is, fi-ligature followed by "nal"). If you are constructing a font, there are lots of good links on the Unicode website which include information on how to handle ligation without having a code point for every combination of characters you ligate.
I haven't time to write a good quality response right now, but no doubt someone will jump in with 37 pages of text about the small amount I've already written (please excuse my sarcasm, which isn't directed at you).
PS> Flarn isn't the reference I think it is, is it?
Best Regards,
Addison
Addison P. Phillips
Director, Globalization Architecture
http://www.webMethods.com
Chair, W3C Internationalization Working Group
http://www.w3.org/International
Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On Behalf Of Flarn
> Sent: 2004年11月27日 15:46
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Ligatures
>
>
> Can you please give me a list of all the ligatures available? Thanks!
>
> - Michael Norton (a.k.a. Flarn)
> E-mail address: flarn2003@megapipe.net
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