From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 14:11:10 EST
On 17/03/2004 09:59, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>Arcane Jill <arcanejill@ramonsky.com> wrote:
>
>
>>But if you lowercased that, surely you'd get <j, combining dot above>.
>>How should that be rendered?
>>
>>
>
>This is already addressed: lowercase j is "soft-dotted" meaning that its default
>dot disappears when there's a diacritic above it, and this includes the
>combining dot above.
>
>So <j, combining dot above> is not canonically or compatibility equivalent to
><j>, but both normally look the same when rendered, and the difference that is
>invisible in lowercase, comes back to visible when converted back to uppercase.
>So the semantic is preserved...
>
>
>
But if you had a font (e.g. a Celtic one) in which lower case i or j is
dotless, should the soft-dottedness be cancelled and the dot appeared
anyway? (Dare I suggest that this would give a way of writing Turkish
with a Celtic font? Probably not as it would mean non-standard encoding
of the Turkish text.)
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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