Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?

"Michael S. Kaplan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You have it right James.

Vista Notepad implements font instructions for non-discretionary features 
using Uniscribe.

MichKa [MS]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Kass" <[email protected]>
To: "Unicode Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?


>
> Murray Sargent wrote in part,
>
>> Vista's NotePad does choose to glyph all text, and hence displays default 
>> Latin ligatures if they exist in the current font.
>
> I'm not sure what is meant here.
>
> If Vista Notepad implements font instructions for non-discretionary
> features using Uniscribe, that's fine.  But, if Vista Notepad substitutes
> Latin (or even Armenian) ligature presentation forms for "normal" strings 
> in the display for any font which has glyphs mapped to those presentation 
> form characters regardless of individual font OpenType table instructions, 
> that's not so good.
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Kass
>
>
>
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