Re: oelig/OElig from Irene VATTON on 2001-03-29 (www-amaya@w3.org from January to March 2001)

From: Irene VATTON <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:12:31 +0200
To: Denis Excoffier <Denis.Excoffier@eurocopter.com>
cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <200103291012.MAA14837@tahiti.inrialpes.fr>

> 
> I have compiled and installed amaya-4.3.2 on top of Solaris 2.7
> with lesstif-0.92.26. Works fine, as usual.
> Between amaya-4.3 and this new version, we have now &times; and
> &divide; working, but &oelig; and &OElig; don't work any more
> (on printed paper).
> How can we make these 2 characters work again?

If we respect the ISO-latin standard, these characters don't exist.
To solve the problem we patched ISO-latin-1 fonts, but &times; and
&divide; didn't work.
The right solution is to use oe and OE or to wait for the support 
of Unicode.

-- 
     Irene.

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