Just a little note:
In one tradition of phonetic notation used
in Europe, italics were used to mark phonetic
transcription (in IPA, brackets are used as
markup). Therefore, the italicness of the
landsmaalalfabet is no surprise to me.
And indeed, the page reproduced by Michael
Everson is a hint for the existence of a real
dotless j.
Another hint can be Found in Haarmann, Universalgeschichte
der Schrift, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, where
an alphabet for _Burjatisch_ is shown, which contains
both dotted and dotless j. Haarmann is usually
faithful in the information given, but it should be tracked
to primary sources.
Also nice: The dotless i with inverted breve below:
It can be only coded as \u0131\u032f; but not using
the usual i (\u0069). I wonder how to read the UNicode
description on diacritics on i for diacritics which
aren't above. At least, it isn't explicit for version 2.0.
--J"org Knappen
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