Re: Dotless j found in Finland

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jul 14 1999 - 14:15:57 EDT


Ar 19:06 +0000 1999-07-14, scr�obh Joerg Knappen:

>Another hint can be Found in Haarmann, Universalgeschichte
>der Schrift, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, where
>an alphabet for _Burjatisch_ is shown, which contains
>both dotted and dotless j. Haarmann is usually
>faithful in the information given, but it should be tracked
>to primary sources.

J�rg Du Engel! I'll go look now....

>Also nice: The dotless i with inverted breve below:
>It can be only coded as \u0131\u032f; but not using
>the usual i (\u0069). I wonder how to read the UNicode
>description on diacritics on i for diacritics which
>aren't above. At least, it isn't explicit for version 2.0.

WARNING! This may be a _turned_ i. The dots are pesky. We need to look into
this.

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