Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?

From: Michael S. Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2007 - 11:51:20 CST

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    You have it right James.

    Vista Notepad implements font instructions for non-discretionary features
    using Uniscribe.

    MichKa [MS]

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "James Kass" <thunder-bird@earthlink.net>
    To: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 8:57 AM
    Subject: Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?

    >
    > Murray Sargent wrote in part,
    >
    >> Vista's NotePad does choose to glyph all text, and hence displays default
    >> Latin ligatures if they exist in the current font.
    >
    > I'm not sure what is meant here.
    >
    > If Vista Notepad implements font instructions for non-discretionary
    > features using Uniscribe, that's fine. But, if Vista Notepad substitutes
    > Latin (or even Armenian) ligature presentation forms for "normal" strings
    > in the display for any font which has glyphs mapped to those presentation
    > form characters regardless of individual font OpenType table instructions,
    > that's not so good.
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > James Kass
    >
    >
    >

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