Re: dotless j

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Mon Jul 05 1999 - 05:15:35 EDT

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Ar 11:49 -0700 1999-07-04, scr�obh John Cowan:

>Nobody is arguing for that: "dotlessj" is a perfectly legitimate
>*glyph* that should be present in Latin fonts. But that is not
>the same as making it a *character*. Unicode has "promoted" too
>many glyphs to characters already (the Arabic presentation forms,
>the ligatures, etc.) and doesn't need to make matters worse.

I don't suppose one character would be so dreadful.

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