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Old 03-25-2020, 10:35 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Not necessarily.

In Unicode itself, there are a handful of ligature characters, but these were provided mostly for backwards compatibility. Characters like: ff, fi, fl, ffi.

(I think of them as glyphs rather than characters.) But aren't those glyphs what's used in the output? My thinking was that when there's a sequence that can be displayed with a ligature then something happens to make the ligature appear in the output instead of the original sequence.
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