Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:32:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), howardjp@well.com (James Howard), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <200104182132.OAA11121@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010418213206.A58588@lpt.ens.fr> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Apr 18, 2001 09:32:06 PM
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> > > > What other character pairs are there? I flipped through a couple books > > > > and only found "fi". > > > > > > Out of my head: fi ffi fl ffl fj > > > > gg gk gx gc ae oe oa ai ei oi ui yi hu a:i o: au eu iu ou ey iy > > a:y o:y ie uo yo: > > Er, we were talking about ligatures (joining certain letter > combinations together in print). Not diphthongs... Those are not ligatures; neither is the "Florin" dipthong that you guys keep using as an example of a "ligatured character" (there is no such thing as a ligatured cahracter, only a ligatured rendering of two or more characters). Ligatures are what you see in non-block Hebrew, Arabic, Tamil, Devengari, cursive English, and so on. If you guys need more information on the distinction between character sets and fonts, and rendering vs. representation, I suggest that you read the intro to the Unicode specification (or ISO 10646, if you have the $ for it), since that standard defines this distinction in great gory detail. By the "definitions" most of you (except Brett) keep throwing around, the Kanji 4-up charaters would be "ligatures". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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