Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

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Date: Mon Nov 17 2008 - 10:56:32 CST

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    Quoting "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>:

    > 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.
    >

    Which of course begs the question where such guidance should be kept .

    John Knightley

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