30 Apr
2013
30 Apr
'13
12:28 p.m.
thinking of it: one reason why a general purpose word processor used by people with no idea about things like ligatures, is that ligatures are language dependent
I don't think that's necessary relevant: the only example I can think of language-dependent ligatures is fi and ffi for Turkish and other languages that use the dotless i (ı, U+0131), because removing the dot on the i would be confusing in that case; but that's really all. All other ligatures depend on the font. Many Adobe-produced fonts have a special ligatures for Turkish and some other languages using ı, I suspect because Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType has a provision for them. Arthur