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On 4/3/2012 7:41 PM, John Hudson wrote:
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Most engines already perform composing operations for
precomposed <br>
Unicodes, because there was a time when the processing
gain of <br>
performing composition at the character level seemed
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Actually, it was more a matter of functionality, because many fonts
ship today with support for precomposed characters but without
support for the combining marks. That's the case for pretty much all
the Adobe western fonts, for example.<br>
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Eric.<br>
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