Re: dotless j

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Mon Jul 05 1999 - 05:20:57 EDT

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Ar 12:44 -0700 1999-07-04, scr�obh Curtis Clark:

><sarcasm type="off">
>Okay, a fifth way. An "expert set" font with a dotless j, so that combined
>diacriticals won't look dorky. *Now* am I getting it?
></sarcasm>

It isn't funny. Linguists have a real need to combine diacritics.
Bounding-box specifications in Unicode stack glyphs really nicely, and the
user or process can choose dotless i (which is present in the UCS) but
can't choose dotless j unless some phonetically-minded font guy had the
foresight to put it in the font.

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