User Guide

Making OpenType Fonts
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S c r i p t s a nd La n g u a g e s
The second great OpenType feature is support for multiple scripts and
languages. With an OpenType font you can define different behaviors of
the font when it is used to type text in different languages. For example,
some ligatures that are necessary in English are not applicable to Turkish.
Other features, like support for initial, medial and final forms of the
characters are applicable only to Arabic script, and so on.
OpenType allows us to define script and language dependence at the
lookup level, so the same feature may work differently when different
languages are supported.