Re: Investigating: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J WITH DOT ABOVE

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 12:59:41 EST

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    Arcane Jill <arcanejill@ramonsky.com> wrote:
    > But if you lowercased that, surely you'd get <j, combining dot above>.
    > How should that be rendered?

    This is already addressed: lowercase j is "soft-dotted" meaning that its default
    dot disappears when there's a diacritic above it, and this includes the
    combining dot above.

    So <j, combining dot above> is not canonically or compatibility equivalent to
    <j>, but both normally look the same when rendered, and the difference that is
    invisible in lowercase, comes back to visible when converted back to uppercase.
    So the semantic is preserved...



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