Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Why was Turkish unified, then? > > It has not. > There are two kinds of "i": with and without dots: two different letters, > 4 different chars (upper and lower case of the 2 letters). > They are not unified. > > Now, the default pair used in almost all languages is the one with a dot > for the lowercase, and the one without dot for the uppercase. > So the default pairing is that one; only for Turkish and Azerbaidjani > the upercasing and lowercasin rules are different.
You've described the situation, but you haven't answered the question. The obvious alternative would be to have 6 characters: upper and lower case versions of "ordinary I", "Turkish/Azeri dotted I" and "Turkish/Azeri dotless I". It would be interesting to know whether this alternative is ever used, in some encoding, was ever considered for Unicode, etc. Edmund -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
