ligatures: Translate Unicode Latin Ligatures

In tau: Text Analysis Utilities

Description

Translate Unicode “Latin ligature” characters to their respective constituents.

Usage

translate_Unicode_latin_ligatures(x)

Arguments

x	a character vector in UTF-8 encoding.

Details

In typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature for more information.)

Unicode (http://www.unicode.org/) lists the following “Latin” ligatures:

Code	Name
0132	LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ
0133	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ
0152	LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
0153	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
FB00	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF
FB01	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI
FB02	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL
FB03	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI
FB04	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFL
FB05	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T
FB06	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST

translate_Unicode_latin_ligatures translates these to their respective constituent characters.

tau documentation built on July 21, 2021, 5:07 p.m.