Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> This is why I think the piecetable needs to know about "glyphs
> made of multiple codepoints".

And also single codepoints displayed as multiple glyphs. :)

> Nope it's much harder.  Selection needs to know about
> the qualities of each character it encounters.

The Unicode character database, 'UnicodeData.txt' at
<URL: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/ > has information on 
all this. This database *needs* to be embedded in AbiWord for 
correct linebreaking, wordbreaking, 'ligature'-creating, sorting, 
glyph display &c.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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