[PLUG] Devanagari unicode: composite letters ( जोडाक्षरे ); latex

Mayuresh mayuresh at acm.org
Sat Jan 16 02:25:24 IST 2010


> showing beyond doubt that it's rendering time adjustment.

These are called ligatures it seems:

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature


"Unicode maintains that ligaturing is a presentation issue rather than a 
character definition issue" ... " the use of the special Unicode ligature 
characters is "discouraged", and "no more will be encoded in any 
circumstances" "

Seems unicode earlier allowed special codes for ligatures in Roman.

Anyway, it's understandable why special codes are not allowed. But what does a 
poor application developer do? Worry himself about ligatures? Will be 
interesting to find out from internals of some of the apps.

In any case a good design should dump the issue to fonts system and not the 
application. Not sure whether it's done that way given the observations in 
last mail.

Mayuresh.




More information about the Plug-mail mailing list