Luke Stevens scripsit:
> if there is a dotless i, why not a dotless j?
Dotless i is an actual character, a letter of the Turkish alphabet.
Dotless j is not.
> You can't apply many of
> the usual combining diacritics (e.g. a macron) to j because the dot is
> in the way. And yes, this is actually a problem for me from time to
> time.
That is because your algorithm for combining glyphs (not characters)
is naive. It needs to recognize i (not dotless) and j specially
and remove their dots. TeX exposes too much underlying mechanism here.
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