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  1. TIL: the Georgia system font includes ligature glyphs but does not expose them for substitution using the liga OpenType feature. I wonder how common this is? via @g16n @g16n/1068139142599663618 (screenshot courtesy of wakamaifondue.com)
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    1. …in reply to @zachleat
      Unicode has a small set of hard-coded ligature code points for a limited set of character combinations, an approach they quickly realized wasn’t going to scale: unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html#Ligatures
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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