[resending; better set the encoding to UTF-8...]
Peter Kirk wrote:
...
> used on Turkic text, violates the very sensible rule DO NOT USE
> COMBINING DOTS WITH I's, and leads to all sorts of potential
> confusion
> e.g. that both simple and full case folding and lowercasing
> applied to
> NFD Turkic text generate the nonsensical <i, dot above>. This
> could be a
> serious problem - although one that may not be worth fixing.
<i, dot above> is not non-sensical. It is used in Lithuanian for
such things as <i, dot above, tilde above>, as well as other
additonal accents above an i or a j that keeps its dot.
/kent k
Lithuanian alphabet (not listing all the uppercase
accented letters)
Aa (ÃÃ, ÃÃ ÃÃ ÄÄ {ÄÌ}{ÄÌ}), Bb, Cc (CHch), ÄÄ, Dd,
Ee (ÄÄ, ÄÄ Ã Ã á Ä {ÄÌ} {ÄÌ} Ä {ÄÌ} {ÄÌ}), Ff, Gg, Hh,
Ii (Ã{iÌÌ} Ã{iÌÌ} Ä{iÌÌ} ÄÄ {ÄÌ}{ÄÌÌ} {ÄÌ}{ÄÌÌ}, Yy, ÃÃ,
áá),
Jj ({JÌ}{jÌÌ}), Kk, Ll ({lÌ}), Mm ({mÌ}), Nn (ÃÃ),
Oo (Ã, Ã, Ã), Pp, [Qq], Rr (rÌ), Ss, ÅÅ, Tt,
Uu (Ã Ã Å ÅÅ {ÅÌ} {ÅÌ} ÅÅ {ÅÌ}), Vv, [Ww], [Xx], Zz, ÅÅ
