Dotless j (was RE: FW: ISO entity names)

From: Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 06:39:12 EDT


John Cowan wrote:
> Ahem. ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/SGML.TXT
> written by yours truly, and brought to you by the miracle of Her
> Divine Effulgency, Sarasvati.

And SGML.TXT contains this line:
>jnodot ISOamso 0x???? # latin small letter dotless j

Anyone knows, or can imagine, the rationale for the existence of a dotless j
in SGML?
Is this a character actually used to spell some language (in this case,
shouldn't it be in Unicode), or is it just a "presentation glyph" for when j
carries a combining accent?

_ Marco



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:21:01 EDT