On Dec 16, 2003, at 4:27 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
At 11:03 +0100 2003-12-16, Philippe Verdy wrote: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.
Michael is, of course, correct. The problem here is that in books on Latin typography from the not too distant past, such as those by Robin Williams (the other one), recommend using dotless-i + accent for precisely this reason that the dot would otherwise collide with the accent. Ms Williams was working in an environment, however, where all kinds of hacks were needed for non-international software like Quark to do the fancy stuff typographers wanted to do. A lot of the old typography tricks are being obsoleted by Unicode, OpenType/AAT/Graphite, and should no longer be adhered to.
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