Re: Irish dotless I (was: Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

From: Pavel Adamek (pavel.adamek@ima.cz)
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 08:07:02 EST

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    > why not introduce a "seimhiu" character
    > whose glyphic representation is
    > either h-following or dot-above?
    > Primarily for Unicode structural reasons:
    > Unicode needs to say a character is
    > either combining or not.

    It would be combining in both fonts.
    Although it is not usual in Latin script
    to place diacritical marks after the letter,
    IMHO there is no reason why it could not be done.

    So I can imagine following characters:

    for Irish:

     COMBINING H AFTER
     
     COMBINING SEIMHIU
      in modern fonts equal to
       0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE
      in archaic fonts equal to
       COMBINING H AFTER

    for Czech:

     COMBINING SHORT NABODENICKO
      in modern fonts equal to
       030C COMBINING CARON
      in archaic fonts equal to
       0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE

     COMBINING C BEFORE
      <H><COMBINING C BEFORE> = CH

          P.A.

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