From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 11:41:17 EDT
On 10/07/2003 08:21, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>>In Turkish and Azeri the sequences f - i and f - dotless i both occur,
>>and are fairly frequent. So it is inappropriate in these languages to
>>use fi ligatures in which the dot on the i is lost or invisible, at
>>least where the second character is a dotted i. Has any thought been
>>given to this issue? Is it possible to block such ligation on a
>>language-dependent basis?
>>
>>
>
>Isn't there a "Grapheme Disjoiner" format control character to force the
>absence of a ligature like <fi>, i.e. <f, GDJ, i>?
>
Maybe, but it is hardly realistic to expect all existing Turkish and
Azeri text to be recoded to insert a character in the middle of each f -
i sequence.
-- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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