Re: Case mapping of dotless lowercase letters

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 12:34:24 EST

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    Arcane Jill wrote:

    > I sometimes wonder whether or not it was a wise choice to regard
    > "LATIN SMALL LETTER I" and "LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I" as distinct.
    > Too late to change it now, of course, but (with the benefit of
    > hindsight) it occurs to me that if U+0069 had been regarded as
    > dotless, all these problems would never have arisen. Western fonts
    > could still have rendered it with a dot, Turkish fonts could have
    > rendered it without a dot, and everyone would have been happy.

    Dotted and dotless I are both used in Turkic languages. They are not
    glyph variants of one another.

    > Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm making this up as
    > I go along. Don't take any of it seriously.

    Agreed.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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