> Would it not make more sense to have not two, but three different kinds of lowercase i: <non-dotted i>, <soft-dotted i> and <hard-dotted i>?. (And similarly for uppercase). Of course, then you might as well invent COMBINING SOFT DOT ABOVE so we can use it elsewhere.
I should have mentioned that in this hypothetical scheme, the following would be canonically equivalent:
<soft-dotted-i> = <non-dotted-i> <combining-soft-dot-above>
<soft-dotted-I> = <non-dotted-I> <combining-soft-dot-above>
<hard-dotted-i> = <non-dotted-i> <combining-dot-above>
<hard-dotted-I> = <non-dotted-I> <combining-dot-above>
Sorry for the omission in previous email
Jill
