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Cargo Cult Coding?

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I noticed that many Adobe Std fonts include localized code for Turkish. For example, we find the following 'liga' feature in Optima Std Roman (as interpreted by FL5):

feature liga { # Standard Ligatures
  script latn; # Latin
    lookup liga4 {
      sub f i by fi;
    } liga4;
    lookup liga5 {
      sub f l by fl;
    } liga5;
 language TUR  exclude_dflt; # INVALID LANGUAGE TAG 'TUR' - use 'TRK' instead
    lookup liga5;
} liga;
Considering the fact that Std fonts from Adobe don’t actually include Idotaccent, Gbreve, gbreve, Scedilla, or scedilla (i.e. characters needed to support Turkish), is there any actual *benefit* to including this localization? Or is this simply someone blindly adding this because they’ve seen it done elsewhere?


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