Re: undo and combining characters

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 21:37:35 EDT

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     --- Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote: >
    According to Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>:
    > > On Wednesday 24 April 2002 12:00, Patrick Lam
    > wrote:
    > > > Why do we want a pref? Under what circumstances
    > would
    > > > someone want ligatures off?
    > >
    > > When typing monospace. I've seen a computer book
    > in which "fi" was written as
    > > a ligature, even in Courier, with the result that
    > things that were supposed
    > > to align vertically didn't.
    >
    > Perhaps could we be smarter that that, no ?
    > Monospace fonts are easy
    > to detect :-)

    A decent monospace font would either not support the
    "fi" ligature or it would fit into a single space.
    Assuming all monospace fonts are broken would not be
    a good idea.

    Andrew Dunbar.

    > Hub

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