Y diaeresis

From: John Clews (10646er@sesame.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 30 1996 - 14:22:41 EST


In message <9611301557.AA25383@Unicode.ORG> unicode@Unicode.ORG writes:
> At 13:27 30/11/96 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote: Re: HTML - i18n / NCR &
charsets
> > 9F (159) -- &Yuml; -- Ydieresis
> >
> >Y diaeresis is a non-existent character, according to the experts on
> >TYPO-L, who have just discussed this in depth.
>
> According to the rules, a character cannot be deleted from UCS. So it has to
> stay with us.

> Later, Jonathan Rosenne wrote: Re: HTML - i18n / NCR & charsets

> According to the rules, a character cannot be deleted from UCS. So it has to
> stay with us.

John Clews writes:

1. In any event, upper-casing as a software routine requires it.
   Accented lower-case letters may be required to be transformed to
   upper-case letters, e.g. in representing personal names in some
   bibliographic and other databases. Back-transformation will not want
   the new lower-case text to differ from the original lower-case text.

2. Computer users will still want to be able to say:
   the letter <y:> is sometimes used in Belgium and the Netherlands:
   the letter <Y:> is never used in the beginning of names

   or some similar text, using their computer.

So it does exist in ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2 and ISO/IEC 10646.
1. and 2. above also show the need for it to exist.

Whether other "experts" wish it did not exist is not relevant to
developers and users of ISO/IEC 10646.

John Clews

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