From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4E08DDDE.94AB.00CC.0@wlu.ca> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:45:34 -0400 From: "Karljurgen Feuerherm" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> References: <20110625065017.GA638@polynum.com> <522e1e2a38aa18c291305563d362abfe@ladd.quanstro.net> <20110625150327.GA425@polynum.com> <20110625171134.GA3661@polynum.com> <20110626075745.GA395@polynum.com> <20110627114856.GA7099@polynum.com> <9308c52f360f6274e0730399741278ce@ladd.quanstro.net> <20110627172006.GA497@polynum.com> In-Reply-To: <20110627172006.GA497@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=__Part37187D0E.0__=" Subject: Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX] Topicbox-Message-UUID: f779105e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=__Part37187D0E.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thierry, > I only say that: > 1) Forcing, as this was written in the XeTeX FAQ, user to enter the special codepoint for the fi ligature since, white eyes, scornful wave of the hand: "this is the way this is done with Unicode" is sheer stupidity.=20 I don't know who told you that... just because there is a codepoint for = something does not mean that one has to access that codepoint directly in = all cases. Software at various levels can render a ligature on the basis = of various actual character sequences (e.g. f + i, or f, i when ligatures = are forced, etc.=20 It's simply a level of what support one wishes to offer....=20 KF=20 --=__Part37187D0E.0__= Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: HTML =20

Thierry,

> I only say that:

<= font face=3D"Lucida Grande" size=3D"3">> 1) Forcing, as = this was written in the XeTeX FAQ, user to enter the
special = codepoint for the fi ligature since, white eyes, scornful = wave
of the hand: "this is the way this is done with Unicode" = is sheer
stupidity. =


=20

I don't know who told = you that...  just because there is a codepoint for something does not = mean that one has to access that codepoint directly in all cases. Software = at various levels can render a ligature on the basis of various actual = character sequences (e.g. f + i, or f, i when ligatures = are forced, etc.


=20

It's simply a level of = what support one wishes to offer....


=20

KF

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