Ar 12:12 -0700 1999-07-04, scr�obh Torsten Mohrin:
>To remove the dot is the job of the operating system (or better: GUI)
>with its display engine (font management, character rendering). This
>engine has to select a 'dotless j' glyph from its glyph collection
>("font") to combine it with a circumflex even if 'dotless j' does not
>exist as a character in Unicode.
I think that complex Arabic and Indic shaping behaviour is a fine thing.
Requiring it for Latin to remove a _dot_ seems a bit much to me.
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