- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:06:08 -0700
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>, indic <public-i18n-indic@w3.org>
On 10/10/14 1:08 AM, Richard Ishida wrote: > All browsers added space between characters that should be joining. On > the Mac the Scheherazade font failed to keep the lam-alif and lam-meem > combinations together, separating the glyph parts. This is because Scheherazade, like a growing number of Arabic fonts, does not use ligature glyphs, even for the lam+alif sequence. It is important to remember that a ligature -- a single glyph representing more than one character -- is a particular technological solution, not a feature of the writing system. As more font makers realise the relative efficiency of handling Arabic without ligatures, instead utilising contextually triggered variant letter glyphs, you'll see more fonts behaving in letterspacing tests as Scheherazade does. JH
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