Re: Dutch IJ, again

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 13:45:01 EDT

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    Well, I don't know who told you, but WORD JOINER only affects
    linebreak behavior, not intercharacter spacing.

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt>
    To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 08:03
    Subject: Re: Dutch IJ, again

    > On 2003.05.25, 00:00, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
    >
    > > even if the Dutch language considers it as a single letter, in a
    > > way similar to the Spanish "ch"
    >
    > I see one major difference: When you apply extra wide inter-char
    > distance, you (should) get, f.i.:
    >
    > K o r t r ij k and not K o r t r i j k
    >
    > but E l c h e and not E l ch e
    >
    > This is common practice in both spanish and dutch typography, ISTK.
    >
    > I was told in this forum that the surest way to keep this working in
    > Unicode texts is to use "i<WJ>j" for Dutch and plain "ij" for other
    > languages.
    >
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