Re: ligature usage - WAS: How do we find out what assigned code points aren't normally used in text?

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:19:27 +0200
Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14_at_telia.com> wrote:

>
> Den 2011-09-10 20:58, skrev "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi>:
>
> > According to Oxford Style
> > Manual, one should not use the fi ligature in Turkish, as that
> > would obscure the distinction between normal i and dotless i (ž).
 
> It does not make perfect sense to me. Rather that:

I believe the point is that the glyph of fi U+FB01 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE
FI is unsuitable for Turkish because it is normally undotted, or at
least, the dot is barely visible. (Confusingly, my e-mail client chooses
a dotted glyph!)

Richard.
Received on Sat Sep 10 2011 - 16:09:47 CDT