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Re: FT2: some patches


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: FT2: some patches
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:37:54 GMT

> >> Interesting: I know nothing about Indic. Are these ligature
> >> discisions for Indic scripts automatable (like for German, with a
> >> huge dictionary or otherwise) or are they typed by the typist?
> >

> >AFAIK, ligature decisions have to be done by the typist, similar to
> >Arabic.
> 
> Well, then it's an entirely different situation, isn't it? ;-)

Not really.  The mechanism is exactly the same (inserting either
zero-width joiner or non-joiner), and I see no reason to not provide
this functionality to, say, German users also.  Whether they use it is
something *very* different...


    Werner


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