Re: Latin digraph characters (was: Re: Klingon silliness)

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 14:30:08 EST


Marco Cimarosti wrote:

> This invention originated the can of worms called "titlecase", because it is
> not enough to merely declare that dj,lj,nj,dž are "characters" to change the
> reality, and this becomes evident in case conversions.

Yes, but then it turned out that titlecase was important in polytonic
Greek, too.

 

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