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Re: Shouldn't italic be an OpenType feature?
There’s an 'ital' feature tag defined in the OpenType specification.It’s UI suggestion is: “When a user selects text and applies an Italic style, an application should check for this feature and use …3 -
Re: Which extended Latin characters never occur at the beginning of a word?
With this reply: https://twitter.com/isoglosse/status/10858735067163975701 -
Re: Coding of Cyrillic transliteration of Arabic words
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Романизация_арабского_письма has a column with the academic cyrillic translitteration of Arabic.4 -
Re: Only one font format
Oh, he’s not the only one. “There are dozens of us... dozens!”4 -
Re: Arabic Unicode normalisation
See the related https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/125: In Unicode 1.1, U+FDF2 had the following glyph: It didn’t have a shadda nor a superscript alef. Some fonts have FDF2 like that (no shadda, no …1
