Re: Character list for European and Canadian use in the revised keyboard standard ISO/IEC 9995-3, supplementing MES-1

From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@in-nomine.org)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 05:16:36 CDT

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    Hi André,

    -On [20080923 12:08], André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com) wrote:
    >Isn't IJ (as a single character) deprecated, isn't the use of I + J
    >recommended?
    >Given that it's only a compatibility character, and it should not be
    >used for newly input data, is it a good idea to have it on a keyboard?

    Well, last I checked the schools still teach to write ij as ij and not as two
    separate letters.
    Could be that 'they' (whoever they may be) state that to accommodate the
    multitude of US English keyboards present in the Netherlands you have to use
    i and j and that ij is a compatibility character. I have no clue about that.

    That would mean what is used and what is taught are quite distinct. 

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