Dedotted I and dotlessi

[Khaled Hosny]

> On Aug 18, 2020, at 1:33 AM, Khaled Hosny <dr.khaled.hosny at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 18, 2020, at 12:15 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:53:01 +0200 Khaled Hosny via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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>>> In
>>> case of reordering, you will also need to tag the whole reordered
>>> sequence as one unit since you can’t tell which glyphs belongs to
>>> which character any more. People will also complain about increased
>>> file size, so you will have to do tagging selectively for cases than
>>> can’t be handled in a different way.
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>> I don't know if it's due to another feature (or even merely a bug), but
>> I did notice that LibreOffice-exported PDFs swell enormously if one uses
>> PDF/A to make Indic text extractable.  This was with a series of
>> documents that were at least 90% English (in the Latin script).  Zipping
>> was ineffective.
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> LibreOffice does exactly the selective handling I described: unique one to one and many to one mappings use the font’s /ToUnicode, everything else uses /ActualText tasing per cluster (HarfBuzz cluster which is not always the same as grapheme clusters). As it happens, I wrote that code in LibreOffice.

The PDF/A issue is probably unrelated, since what I’m describing above happens with any PDF export profile.