From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 18:17:49 EDT
From: "Pim Blokland" <pblokland@planet.nl>
> Karl Pentzlin schreef:
> > In quality typography, does the "ij" in "bijectie" look different
> > from an ij ligature?
> > Is it recommended to write "bi[ZWNJ]jectie" when you don't use
> > U+0133 for "common" "ij"s?
>
> No, it's just one word; we don't put non-joiners inside a word.
> It also should not look any different from words where the ij is one
> sound.
> My feelings at this moment are that if you do want to make the
> difference clear, write U+0133 for the "normal" ij sound and i+j for
> when it's supposed to be two letters, and don't use any tricks such
> as non-joiners. (If you MUST resort to tricks like that, my gut
> feeling would be to use a joiner such as U+034F inside "normal" ijs
> and nothing between the ij in bijectie. Again, no non-joiners inside
> words!)
>
> Pim Blokland
>
> P.S. I haven't yet stumbled upon any words starting with ij which
> were NOT pronounced with the ij sound. I'm beginning to think words
> like that don't exist.
I totally agree. SpecialCasing rules are needed only for the support of existing words and rules appropriate with a real language. We MUST ignore inexistant words and treat them the same as other existing words for that language.
-- Philippe.
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