Helmut Wollmersdorfer


IMHO it's easy: If you map the codepoints of lowercase and uppercase letters to the same glyph in your font, then also map U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (Lowercase_Letter) and U+1E9E LAT… (View Post)

The old rules in Duden (capital ß not available): - use SS for ß in capital letters - to avoid confusion use SZ, e.g. MASSE (EN: mass) versus MASZE (EN: measures) Swiss German uses always ss instead … (View Post)

\a should not look like \o or \e, especially in the a_e ligature. I like the the shape of Book Antiqua (see the cursive) for readability. Bodoni is a no-go. (View Post)

@"John Savard" AFAIK Moldavian is a Romanian dialect which developed isolated for political reasons, kept some old vocabulary and adopted Slavic words under Russian influence. When I compil… (View Post)


Define anchors for all base characters and all combining accents. That's the way provided by Unicode. Even if a predefined codepoint exists for an accented glyph like \Ä exists in Unicode yo… (View Post)