10 Feb
2011
10 Feb
'11
1:57 p.m.
I thought this was the whole point behind the Unicode Consortium choosing not to allocate code points for ligatures.
what about U+FB03 for example? (LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI)
As William says, this is for compatibility with a legacy encoding, just as the hundreds of Arabic "presentation forms" that lurk nearby. But, for that matter, this is also the reason for inclusion of the ij ligature (U+0132 LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ and lowercase U+0133). Arthur