From: Curtis Clark (jcclark@mockfont.com)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 12:05:28 EDT
Pim Blokland wrote:
> Well, in some ways, the ij DOES act like a letter. For instance, its
> titlecase version is IJ, not Ij. (That is, a word such as "ijver" is
> written as "IJver" when at the start of a sentence.) Encoding it as a
> single codepoint makes this easier to implement.
It occurs to me that I would almost always capitalize as IJver, for the
same reason that I and many others routinely capitalize the second
letter as well as the first: keyboard slips. In every other case,
though, it would be an error, which en-us MS Word would automatically
correct. :-)
-- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
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