From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 06:27:41 EST
At 11:03 +0100 2003-12-16, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net> writes:
>> > Wrong here: I have found occurences of dotless lowercase i, used
>> > instead of soft-dotted lowercase i, as base letters for diacritics
>> > added above it (it was an accute accent...)
>>
>> Don't do that.
>
>What? This is VALID UNICODE to have texts coded like this.
In Irish, it is INCORRECT to spell "físeán"
'video' with a DOTLESS I + COMBINING ACUTE. It is
a spelling error, and will fail in
spell-checking. The correct spelling is either I
+ COMBINING ACUTE or precomposed I WITH ACUTE.
It is VALID UNICODE to follow LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER Q with DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E but that
doesn't mean it's the right way to write anything.
>For whatever reason, encoded texts exist before correct fonts are used to
>render them. So there does exist texts which use dotless lowercase i before
>a diacritic above, simply because the author of the text did not want it to
>be rendered with a superposed dot.
Texts which contain spelling errors. Or old IPA
texts using any number of ad-hoc IPA font
solutions. Those texts have to be transcoded to
proper Unicode at some stage. What you suggest is
Not Recommended.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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