Re: [latina] ligatures

[Paul Norton <paul paulnorton org>]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 19:20 -0400, Garcia, Rafael wrote:
> The Vicipaedia user UV, who is knowledgeable about these tecnical things, explains how it is done there:
> 
> "Technically, this is done via JavaScript. When a user has enabled a certain gadget, this causes one or more JavaScript documents and/or CSS documents to be included in every page that this user views (for a list, see Special:Gadgets). As to the ligatures gadget, the JavaScript script is executed in the user's browser every time a page is loaded, looks for all occurrences of "ae" and "oe" within the page and replaces them with "æ" and "œ", respectively. While this works well for web pages, I do not think that this avenue can be used for the GNOME translation. Greetings, --UV 00:32, 29 Octobris 2008 (UTC)"
> 
> So I guess that we need to decide how we want it displayed. I'm OK with converting to ligatures, if you guys want to do it.

Well, we certainly can't rely on a javascript doing it for us
considering that we don't know that we'll be operating in a display
environment that supports javascript.I think the only way to do this
reliably is to use the actual UTF-8 codes for the ligatures in the file.
All modern unices support the UTF-8 codeset and most default to it. So
the ligature should display correctly whether it's in X-Windows, a
browser, xterm, or a bare-naked console.