From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 14:29:21 EST
Peter Kirk wrote:
> Conclusion: the right thing even for Turkish is to drop the dot on i
> before a circumflex.
I agree. The letter is rare enough to not create an exception here for
the removal of dot on the soft-dotted i followed by circumflex (which
is needed much more often in other languages that use 'î' and Î'.
> But by the same argument we would also want to drop
> the dot on dotless I.
I think you meant "But by the same argument we would also want to drop
the dot on DOTTED I". I would not recommand it, this would make things
even worse and more complicated.
If Turkish wants to remove the dot on "pseudo-dotted" I if followed by
a circumflex, the correct thing to do is then to use the ASCII dotless
I and add a circumflex or use its canonical equivalent
<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX>.
With the current specification, both of
<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I, COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX>, and
<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX>
are canonical equivalents and must render the same, without the dot.
To display a dot, one can use one of the four canonical eqquivalents:
<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE, COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX>
<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX, COMBINING DOT ABOVE>
<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I, COMBINING DOT ABOVE, COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX>
<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I, COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX, COMBINING DOT ABOVE>
(one is the NFC form, another is the NFD form, two others are also
possible)
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