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

Of course, i+j are SOMETIMES treated differently from ij: a vertical sign
BIJOU would separate i and j when IJS wouldn't. Nothing different there from
some other cases in French or German though.

Martin Heijdra

> At 10:58 AM 4/28/2003, John M. Fiscella wrote:
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> >Then how is the difference between <i><j> and <ij> distinguished in
> >plaintext?
>
> I think the point is that there is no distinction to be made in plain
text.
> As Tom pointed out, despite all the special handling required in sorting,
> hyphenation, casing (and, I would add, letterspacing), /IJ/ 'must remain
> equivalent with I+J'. In plain text, this equivalency is all that matters,
> which is why I don't believe the /IJ/ and /ij/ characters are necessary at
> all. If the Dutch treated /IJ/ and /I/+/J/ differently at any time, there
> might be an argument for separately encoding them, but they don't: /IJ/
> always and everywhere equals /I/+/J/, ergo there is not need for separate
> characters.
>
> John Hudson
>
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> As for the technique of trimming the nib,
> Do not be greedy!
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