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Re: Why are composite glyphs not used whenever possible in exported TTF files?
My Amiri font currently has 6223 Arabic glyphs, of which only 512 are not composites. The composites are mostly base glyphs plus diacritical marks, but few of them are a bit more complex. I could hav…3 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
The soft-hyphen (U+00AD) is a control character which tells the application that this is possible hyphenation place (to supplement automatic hyphenation or supplement it), and is such it does not nee…5 -
Re: Using emoji cuts my post off
It affects any character outside BMP not just emoji. Actually thanks to emoji many software now has better Unicode support as software developers can’t dismiss requests to support characters outside …6 -
Re: ela geminada - revisited
Glyph substitutions shouldn’t affect operations that are done on the underlying text stream, like spell checking or search. Searching the PDF, however, might be affected in some cases where the actua…1 -
Re: Apostrophe word list
Not having an “(un)smart quotes” feature at all? If the user cares about proper quotes/apostrophe he will find a way to input the right characters, if he don’t then why bother trying to outsmart him?1