Re: Case-folding dotted i

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:43:56 +0000

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:35:53 +0100
Jo dm <adam_at_jooadam.hu> wrote:

> > Blame the invention of the dot over the i, or the convention of
> > omitting it when adding accents, or the adoption much later of a
> > specifically dotless i into the Turkish alphabet...
 
> Or the invention of a soft accent, for that matter. If the dot would
> be explicitly encoded in all cases, no problem would arise.

And that comes down to the refusal to give U+0069 the canonical
decomposition <U+0131 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I, U+0307 COMBINING
DOT ABOVE>.

Richard.
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