Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2008 - 03:33:06 CST

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    On 16 Nov 2008, at 09:04, Andrew Cunningham wrote:

    > The combinations of base character and combining diacritic(s)
    > supported is a decision of the font developers. No font will support
    > all theoretical combinations, maybe ot even most. What they will try
    > to do is add the combinations that fullfill the purpose fo the font.

    There is no guidance or help for font developers. So they just make
    what's in the code charts.

    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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