From: Kent Karlsson (kentk@cs.chalmers.se)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 08:34:59 EST
Peter Kirk wrote:
...
> used on Turkic text, violates the very sensible rule DO NOT USE
> COMBINING DOTS WITH I's, and leads to all sorts of potential
> confusion
> e.g. that both simple and full case folding and lowercasing
> applied to
> NFD Turkic text generate the nonsensical <i, dot above>. This
> could be a
> serious problem - although one that may not be worth fixing.
<i, dot above> is not non-sensical. It is used in Lithuanian for
such things as <i, dot above, tilde above>, as well as other
additonal accents above an i or a j that keeps its dot.
/kent k
Lithuanian alphabet (not listing all the uppercase
accented letters)
Aa (Àà, Áá Ãã Aa {A´}{a´}), Bb, Cc (CHch), Cc, Dd,
Ee (Ee, Ee è é ? e {e´} {e~} e {e´} {e~}), Ff, Gg, Hh,
Ii (Ì{i?`} Í{i?´} I{i?~} Ii {I´}{i?´} {I~}{i?~}, Yy, Ýý, ??),
Jj ({J~}{j?~}), Kk, Ll ({l~}), Mm ({m~}), Nn (Ññ),
Oo (ò, ó, õ), Pp, [Qq], Rr (r~), Ss, Šš, Tt,
Uu (ù ú u Uu {u´} {u~} Uu {u´}), Vv, [Ww], [Xx], Zz, Žž
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