Re: Conlang Unicode Font (was Re: Kamakawi Unicode Font Question)

Eric:
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How is it that such a font can produce ligatures when e.g. <f> is
followed by <i> or <fl>, but not vary the look of <p> and <b>
depending on what follows?
 >>

There are separate characters (with unicode points) for the "fi"
and "fl" ligatures.  I guess this is what I'm missing.  Certainly
you can have a program that automatically does something
like "if user types f + l, replace resultant string with unicode
character FB02", but the ligature itself still has to have a point.
If it didn't, it seems like you couldn't just create a unicode font
that made use of it: every single font that wanted to use it would
have to come up with its own way of doing it, and every single
program that wanted to render it would have to take into
account every single strategy used by every single font.  Even
a language like Korean has a codepoint for seemingly every
possible combination of consonants, vowels and codas.

Tristan:
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Oh yes certainly you can! In fact, the very existence of initial,
medial, final and stand-alone Arabic characters in Unicode is
considered to be for historical reasons only, and you should never want
to use them.
 >>

I mean, I believe you, and the message came out correctly, but
are you suggesting, then, that Unicode doesn't need to have a
codepoint *anywhere* for *any* non-stand alone character of
Arabic?  If so, how does it avoid the above-mentioned problem?

-David
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