From: vlad (emperor.vlad@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 06 2005 - 18:57:48 CST
> > Couldn't the automatic ligation of fi be prevented in Turkish/Azeri by
> > encoding their dotted i as i + COMBINING DOT ABOVE, rather than i
> > alone?
>
> It could, but that's not what the character is.
Well, it seems to me that i is undefined as to whether it has a dot
above or not. Its dot may disappear when ligated or when replaced with
a diacritic, and some fonts might display it dotless in all situations
(for example, fonts where lowercase letters are displayed as small
caps). In a situation where it is important to distinguish between
dotted and undotted forms, wouldn't it make sense to encode an
explicitly dotted form, rather than an ambiguous one?
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