- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:03:46 -0400
- To: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
- CC: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>, www-international@w3.org
Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> I was wondering how should a standard compliant engine render
>
> <span lang="tr">f‍i</span>
>
> in a font that has the 'fi' ligature:
>
> 1) What do you mean? It is Turkish! "fi" should never be ligated in
> Turkish...
>
> 2) But can't you see the ZWJ? I'm explicitly asking for the ligature. I
> need it!
IMHO the ZWJ should be honored under the principle of subsidiarity.
After all, the Turkish text could be part of an article on typography.
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