latofonts/lato-source

Diacritic collisions in Latin sequence ïï

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andjc commented

The sequence ïï is used in a few languages. In Dinka for instance it represents the long breathy i. Currently the diacritics collide with each other.

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It is actually very difficult to find a font that is suitable for print publications since few fonts support the glyphs and glyph variants used in Africa, and character pairs like ïï are sub-optimal for display text or print publications.

andjc commented

Interestingly, display of sequence is different when a ligature is involved:

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