Re: undo and combining characters

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 12:15:33 EDT

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     --- Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com> wrote: >
    "Tomas Frydrych" <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net> wrote
    > in
    > news:3CC58433.16110.B1F416@localhost:
    >
    > > I think in the case of the Arabic ligature, these
    > have to be
    > > treated as two characters, i.e., pressing
    > backspace after the
    > > second one leaves you with the first one. This
    > case is not a
    > > real issue, because internally the ligature is
    > stored as two
    > > separate characters, ligature is just a way of
    > displaying in
    > > them in a way that looks better,
    >
    > But how does selection works? Are the glyphs
    > 'decomposed' to allow
    > selection (which causes a reflow), and religated
    > when you move the
    > selection?

    Selection should select the entire ligature.
    Otherwise
    we need a selection that can highlight half of a
    ligature and I think this is too much to ask for too
    little gain. I think MSWord does do it though ):

    Andrew Dunbar.

    > --
    > Karl Ove Hufthammer

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