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Try a ligature that is in the Alphabetic Presentation forms and a ligature that is not in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms.

I don't think ligatures matter for this particular question. It's just whether typing "ab" in the search box will find "azwjb" in the text. It should, but it doesn't.

The Character Palette can insert into any Apple application.

Unfortunately not all characters and not all apps:

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2008/10/unicode-bug-in-pages.html

I have not been able to insert zwj or zwnj in Pages either, even via copy/paste.

I don't think ligatures matter for this particular question.

In testing, the test should be for the designed behaviour. By design, ZWJ and ZWNJ are control characters for ligation, so any and all testing should start with ligation.

It's just whether typing "ab" in the search box will find "azwjb" in the text. It should, but it doesn't.

It shouldn't, and it doesn't in some behaviours and does in other behaviours -:).

Students and scholars should be taught to stay away from anything like this.

Unfortunately not all characters and not all apps

Hmm ... interesting.

/hh

It's just whether typing "ab" in the search box will find "azwjb" in the text. It should, but it doesn't.

It shouldn't

Wrong. zwj should be ignored when searching, regardless of where it is, except in special cases like Indic scripts.

it doesn't in some behaviours and does in other behaviours -:).

Also wrong, as far as I can tell, unless you can provide an example of the "other behavior" where searching in OS X does ignore zwj and zwnj.

zwj should be ignored when searching

With regard to the ISO phrasing and the Unicode phrasing on implementing the ISO standard, it's nice to know that there is a right phrasing and a wrong phrasing. And it's nice to know that there is one and only one behaviour in accordance with the right phrasing. One should do one's own matrix. /hh