Re: Accented IJ

At 09:07 AM 4/30/2003, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:

> >>>>> "John" == John Hudson <tiro@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> John> There are ways to do this in an OpenType font, but it is
> John> definitely easier to do if you start from separate i and j
> John> characters, ... than from a single ij character,
>
> Would this not be a case for the double-acute (aka hungarian umlaut)
> mark?  U+0133 U+030B ijÌ? (if that works at all....)
>
> Seems a lot simpler than breaking it apart, seperately acuting the i
> and the j and then kerning them back together....

The double-acute is a separate diacritic: it does not represent two acute 
accents per se.

John Hudson

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