Re: Dutch IJ character

Doug Ewell schreef:

> > Dutch orthography has a grapheme/digraph in that used to
> > be a separate key - a character - on Dutch typewriters.
>
> Which key was it?

Why, the ij key, of course. If I recall correctly, it was located
somewhere to the right of the 9.
(But that was a long time ago. It was back when typewriters didn't
have ones and zeroes. You used to have to type lowercase l and
uppercase O, respectively).
And there was *no* uppercase IJ. Shift-ij produced a guilder sign.
I remember that because when typing with all caps, I always had to
cleanup afterwards and replace the ƒs with IJs.

Pim Blokland