From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 13:34:16 EST
At 08:03 AM 12/15/2003, Arcane Jill wrote:
>I sometimes wonder whether or not it was a wise choice to regard "LATIN
>SMALL LETTER I" and "LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I" as distinct. Too late
>to change it now, of course, but (with the benefit of hindsight) it occurs
>to me that if U+0069 had been regarded as dotless, all these problems
>would never have arisen. Western fonts could still have rendered it with a
>dot, Turkish fonts could have rendered it without a dot, and everyone
>would have been happy.
Turkish uses both dotted and undotted i, as separate letters in the same
alphabet.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
What was venerated as style was nothing more than
an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
- Orhan Pamuk, _My name is red_
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