Ar 12:57 -0700 1999-07-04, scr�obh Jeroen Hellingman:
>No, it is a glyph, and not a character entity in itself (and even if, in
>some odd variant of IPA, it could be found as a character, I would
>still promote using the j (with dot) always, except for that specific
>role).
The need for dotless j is limited to its use with combining diacritics.
>You also don't want to add all the conjunct characters used in
>Indian scripts...
I would be happy to put them in plane 17 or something so we could have a
unified glyph space (i.e. AFII) with permanent character-to-glyph mapping
vectors. That would be helpful to many font implementors.
(Actually, I think this was Umamaheswaran's idea a few years back.)
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