On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
If the whole point of your proposed library is to treat e.g â (u00E2)
and â (u0061u0302) as denoting the same character, then I do not have
anything to contribute. They look visibly different in all three
fonts currently on my screen (the second form looks worse in
three different ways: accent too small, accent too high, accent
too low).
Then you have a crappy font renderer. A GOOD renderer treats composed
characters like ligatures -- it'll assemble the components if it has
to but it'll prefer to use a precomposed glyph if it's available.
(Likewise, the ligature "fi" has a specialized glyph in some fonts.)
On my screen those two characters are indistinguishable.
/s/ Adam
