Why would Unicode need a ligature (as opposed to the font)? Also, it doesn't even render as a ligature in this font!
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Thanks, you just explained why it's hideous. :-)
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Legacy encodings included them, and Unicode added them to preserve round-trip encoding. They are very deprecated in favor of font ligation.
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Yes. The most hideous part is that several PDF readers/converters produce them in output or clipboard copies for Adobe "fi" glyph...
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Hmm, should there be a monospace font that makes a n-char ligature n characters wide?
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For character-cell fonts it's not possible without getting implementors to agree on changing wcwidth([those chars])...
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Has anybody made a tool to compress text by doing this?
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Not AFAIK. But it doesn't compress in the sense of size, only characters. Size for "fi"->U+FB01 is +50%.
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That's fine, twitter counts by character.
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Wow, so this is in reallity a number of characters bound, and not on the number of bytes?
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Yes. You can achieve maximal tweet density by tweeting in Chinese.
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We should all start tweeting in Chinese.
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