Re: Dotless j

From: Peter Constable (peter_constable@sil.org)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 06:20:21 EDT


>Okay, so DOTLESS J is going to be a character someday.
>Even so, j-with-accent will be made using J, not DOTLESS J.

       Absolutely true! Don't expect to see new and revised
       decomposition such as SMALL LETTER J decomposes to SMALL LETTER
       DOTLESS J + COMBINING DOT ABOVE, SMALL LETTER J WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       decomposes to SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J + COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX
       ACCENT, etc.

       One thing that arguably is lacking from Unicode is a set of
       usage guidelines. When someone is trying to decide how to
       represent a given writing system in Unicode, they could make
       the wrong choices either because they don't know of the right
       characters, they don't fully understand the character
       semantics, or who knows whatever other reason. It wouldn't be
       hard to imagine someone innocently and na<vely doing exactly
       what John has pointed out should not be done.

       Peter



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