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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:43:55 +0200
From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX]
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 02:17:00PM +0200, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
>[...]
> Second question: I'm trying to find if, in western languages, including
> ligatures for ae and oe would be good since it is generally needed (one
> can forbid ligatures by inserting "{}" between the letters), or if it's
> not correct to set this by default for fonts (having the glyphes) since
> some western languages use generally the ae or oe combinations without
> knowing or expecting the substitution.

Answering to myself: the "co" prefix---coexist etc.---implies
that the "oe" ligature would be a mistake.

And if "ae" in accented french seems to be correct, it is not the case
in english for example: "aerial" would definitively not benefit from the
ligature.

So the two shall not be ligatures.
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        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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