Translate Unicode “Latin ligature” characters to their respective constituents.
translate_Unicode_latin_ligatures(x)a character vector in UTF-8 encoding.
In typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. (See http://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 |
translate_Unicode_latin_ligatures translates these to their
respective constituent characters.