Ar 20:19 -0000 1999-07-05, scríobh Timothy Partridge:
>Can I interest you in the possibility of LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS LONG I?
>It looks just like a dotless j. (LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG I would be unified
>with LATIN SMALL LETTER J.)
>
>In England in the 11th and 12th centuries i was written without a dot. It
>was common to write the i at the end of a word in a long form which looks
>like a dotless j.
>...
> Tim
In Irish too, and not just in the past, Tim! That dotless long i is what I
write, when using my native script other than with a computer. I have to
confess to having used the Turkish dotless i, and would even use a dotless
j, if that were available, as a long-i substitute (as would many a
non-fontmaker, who might not know/care about the problems thus caused,
should text need to be transferred any further than the nearest consenting
printer). Is it possible that what Tim suggests might be practical,
Michael, and acceptable to a Unicode majority?
mg
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