In article <529967dc$0$29993$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > The whole idea of ligatures like fi is purely typographic. > > In English, that's correct. I'm not sure if we can generalise that to all > languages that have ligatures. It also partly depends on how you define > ligatures. I was speaking specifically of "ligatures like fi" (or, if you prefer, "ligatures like Ï". By which I mean those things printers invented because some letter combinations look funny when typeset as two distinct letters. There are other kinds of ligatures. For example, Å is a dipthong. It makes sense (well, to me, anyway) that upper case Å is Î. Well, anyway, that's the truth according to me. Apparently the Unicode Consortium disagrees. So, who am I to argue with the people who decided that I needed to be able to type a "PILE OF POO" character. Which, by the way, I can find in my "Character Viewer" input helper, but which MT Newswatcher doesn't appear to be willing to insert into text. I guess Basic Multilingual Poo would have been OK but Astral Poo is too much for it.
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