RE: TTF and Unicode surrogates

From: David Goldsmith ([email protected])
Date: Fri May 15 1998 - 16:28:07 EDT


Murray Sargent ([email protected]) wrote:

>David Goldsmith outlines a fourth approach that we've also looked at, namely
>using ligatures. Off hand this would seem to be an expensive way to handle
>surrogates.

Without getting into a discussion of how efficient ligatures are, is this
likely to be an issue for characters allocated outside Plane 0? I mean,
how fast does Klingon have to draw?

David Goldsmith
International and Text Department Architect
Apple Computer, Inc.
[email protected]



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