Re: OT: Georgian road signs (Re: OT: Dvorak)

Hi!

Philip Newton writes:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:09, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
>> My understanding is that in German at least the distinction between
>> long and short s isn't algorithmic, because an s before morpheme
>> boundaries etc is short. So --- although a word-processor equipped with
>> a dictionary could be able to do it for you, a font can't.
>
> That's my understanding, too.
>
> A minimal pair is Wachſtube (Wach-stube: guard room) vs Wachstube
> (Wachs-tube: tube of wax).
Still, if fonts to ligatures automatically, then they may also do long
s automatically, because the problem is exactly the same: no fi
ligature (and any other) in German between morphemes.  In unicode,
you'd insert a zero-width non-breakable space, which you could also
do in words with round s.

**Henrik

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