Re: [ATypI] IJ

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 17:59:02 CDT

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    On 2005.04.04, 13:25, Patrick Andries <patrick.andries@xcential.com>
    wrote:

    > Which with modern font technologies like OpenType should make little
    > difference (the ij and Ij/IJ will be substituted by a ligature if need
    > be).

    Sure, but AFAIK there are no "Ij" in Dutch: the capitalized version of,
    say "ijssel" is "IJssel".

    Apparently the very rare case of regular "i" followed by regular "j" in
    Dutch (in "bijectie" and…?) never happends at the beggining of a word.

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