Doug Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Wrong here: I have found occurences of dotless lowercase i, used > instead of soft-dotted lowercase i, as base letters for diacritics > added above it (it was an accute accent...)
Don't do that.
What? This is VALID UNICODE to have texts coded like this.
In Irish, it is INCORRECT to spell "f�se�n" 'video' with a DOTLESS I + COMBINING ACUTE. It is a spelling error, and will fail in spell-checking. The correct spelling is either I + COMBINING ACUTE or precomposed I WITH ACUTE.
It is VALID UNICODE to follow LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q with DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E but that doesn't mean it's the right way to write anything.
For whatever reason, encoded texts exist before correct fonts are used to render them. So there does exist texts which use dotless lowercase i before a diacritic above, simply because the author of the text did not want it to be rendered with a superposed dot.
Texts which contain spelling errors. Or old IPA texts using any number of ad-hoc IPA font solutions. Those texts have to be transcoded to proper Unicode at some stage. What you suggest is Not Recommended.
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