...It has the disadvantage of making these fonts useless for Turkish and Azeri, and more fundamentally so than fonts which have <f,i> ligatures with no visible dot. And of course the fonts would not be acceptable to most users of English and other Latin script languages. So any such font will be restricted to a small niche market.
I suspect that just changing the font to eliminate the dot will be easier. Software won't have to be changed, existing code pages will not have to be changed, searches will work, etc.
On the other hand, the change to Unicode required for Irish to use dotless i would be rather trivial, simply adding Irish to the existing list currently consisting of Turkish and Azeri, to which Tatar, Bashkir, Gagauz, Karakalpak and various minority languages of Azerbaijan should also be added.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/
