RE: Case mapping of dotless lowercase letters

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 13:34:16 EST

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    At 08:03 AM 12/15/2003, 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.

    Turkish uses both dotted and undotted i, as separate letters in the same
    alphabet.

    John Hudson

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