Re: Yet Another I-Dotting Proposal

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Mon Nov 16 1998 - 14:30:53 EST

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Back in August 1997, the last time we talked about Turkish i's,
Michael Everson wrote:

> It would be ever so convenient to add the missing i's. Then operations such
> as ligaturing (fi ligatures are proscribed from Turkish for obvious
> reasons) could be achieved globally vis à vis the _script_ without
> language-tagging and so on.

But that doesn't work, because IIRC Portuguese does not use the
f-ligatures either.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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