Re: CGJ for Two Greek Ligatures?

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Did I not read somewhere that ZWJ is "really" only intended for Indic
ligatures? I thought I saw something like that, and CGJ was "better" for Latin
(etc.)... Total hallucination?

Thanks,
Doug

Peter Kirk wrote:

> No. The correct character to use to promote a ligature in such cases is
> not CGJ but ZWJ. See the clear discussion of this in the Unicode
> standard. A smart font should be able to deal with this.

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