Re: Case mapping of dotless lowercase letters

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 23:15:26 EST

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    Christopher John Fynn scripsit:

    > It introduces another difficulty though - If there are languages using a
    > "LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J"

    There aren't. Dotless j as a character (as opposed to a glyph used with
    various accents above) is only used in non-IPA phonetic alphabets.

    > I think Latin has too long been considered a "simple script" - if one takes
    > into account the number of languages written in Latin script and all the
    > additions modifications used to do this, Latin is a "complex script".

    Amen.

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