[Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Sat Oct 22 10:53:01 CEST 2016


On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 02:12:34 +0100
Martin Frb via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>[...]
> It is my understanding (but I do not know for sure) that in some 
> languages (such as Arabic) certain letter combinations form a single 
> glyph (afaik/google see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamzah combined 
> with a letter). Though maybe it is considered 2 glyph? I do not know 
> Arabic at all.

Maybe you mean ligatures? Many languages have them, even German:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature

Scary: It may depend on the font what letters are combined to a
ligature. Even English can have them.


Mattias
 


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