Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?

From: "Andrew West" <[email protected]>
> On 24/11/2007, John Hudson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> As of recent versions of Notepad, the default plain text editor in 
>> Windows, the same is
>> true of the Latin script: OTL <rlig> and <liga> lookups are processed 
>> automatically
>> (<dlig> of course, are not, because the feature is off by default). If 
>> one wants to
>> inhibit ligation, one can insert ZWNJ.
>
> I suspect that it is not Notepad per se that is doing this, but Uniscribe.
>
>> This is how it should be, and other plain text editors should do 
>> likewise.
>
> Generally speaking, on Windows, plain text editors that support
> Unicode are limited in what OT features they support by the version of
> Uniscribe that is on the user's system.

I think Andrew has the right take here -- and note that the ligatures are 
optional in some fonts and default in others (notably the C* fonts, which 
has lad to a bit of controversy since not everyone wants them always....


MichKa [Microsoft]
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