Re: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish ghayn)

At 08:43 AM 4/28/2003, Doug Ewell wrote:

> BTW, notice in this thread how consistently users are typing the
> individual letters I and J to refer to the precomposed IJ character.
> That should tell us a lot about how necessary this precomposed character
> really is to support Dutch.

Oh, I was doing it to reinforce the point that the precomposed IJ character 
is unnecessary. An entire discussion devoted to this character can be 
conducted entirely with the characters I and J :)

John Hudson

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