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There are many more glyphs than there are codepoints -- a font contains a ton of information that would be needed to reproduce a script that is not present in u
by bcoates 12y ago
There are many more glyphs than there are codepoints -- a font contains a ton of information that would be needed to reproduce a script that is not present in unicode tables.
- acdha 12y agoThis is particularly true for non-European languages – ligatures are a minor feature for most of the languages using latin-1 but there are quite a few which depend on complex, multi-letter combinations which are required for text to be comprehensible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout