Re: OT? Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 09:24:14 EST

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    Scríobh Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>:
    >
    >Almost all languages using latin script. They use "i" with dot above,
    >but not "ı" without. Turkish is the (almost) only language that has both :-)
    >...

    Irish in Roman script is written i with dot above, Irish in traditional
    script is written i without dot above. The current flooding of our local
    advertising and publishing markets by various non-native uncial fonts to
    write our language goes against tradition in imposing on us that unwanted
    dot. Is there any way at all that using Unicode can help support our
    tradition?
    mg 

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Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991)
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