D�irt S�amas:
>In response to the question asked by Timothy Partridge on 6 July:
>
>There is no variant i in Irish. If such a thing exists it is a personal
>handwriting preference. It is not a character, not even a glyph variant;
>and no such letter is ever printed.
Caithfear a r� gur i cosfhada a bh� in �s�id i roinnt cl�nna, .i. cl�
Watts, mar ceist dearaidh. Ach n�or dh�ineadh aon difr�ocht idir i cosfhada
agus i gn�ch mar charachtair difri�la i gcl�churaideoracht Ghaelach.
It has to be said that a long-legged i was ised in a few fonts, such as the
Watts font, as a design feature. But a difference was never made between
long-footed i and regular i as different characters in Gaelic typography.
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