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Subject: Re: [office] Defining Alternative Glyphs
Dave, Le 8 juil. 08 à 10:46, Dave Pawson a écrit : > 2008/7/8 Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org>: > >> This is all for latin fonts, things get much more complex for >> minority fonts, >> so I won't explain that here. The simplest is to choose a slashed- >> zero in >> some cases, which is a user choice for the glyph, but manually >> forcing the >> usage of a ligature is another good example. >> >> In my opinion this feature is needed for making that last step from >> nice >> looking text to professional looking text. > > > In mine this is a presentation issue which should properly be > assigned to an application, the presentation layer. > Not ODF, the standard. > Such questions almost always stand at the edge of the applicative level; what Thomas is requesting -if I understood him well- is that since we use UTF-8 by default (and it's not like we have a choice, since ODF is XML based) we have to care about the issues related to glyphs that are not easily represented. I thus see this as an extension of ODF's support of UTF-8. best, Charles-H. Schulz Associé / Founding Partner, Ars Aperta
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