Re: dotless j

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Jul 05 1999 - 05:25:39 EDT


Ar 12:57 -0700 1999-07-04, scríobh 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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