RE: Irish dotless I

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 16:26:15 EST

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> As soon as someone commissions a Gaelic font from me which needs
> dotted lower-case i for Turkish or Azeri, I shall let you know.

Keep in mind that OpenType allows fonts to have language-specific
behaviours. You could create a font in which the glyph for 0069 is
dotless for Gaelic, and dotted otherwise.

(And some day, hopefully soon, we'll see apps that can support such
functionality in fonts.)

Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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