On Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:12 PM Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> va escriure:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:24:14PM +0000, Marion Gunn wrote: >> Scr�obh Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >> Irish in Roman script is written i with dot above, >> Irish in traditional script is written i without dot above. > > You have to decide one basic philosophical question: > is your dotless-i the same letter as our "i", only in your > traditional font, or is it a different letter? I let this to Marion > E.g. if you write foreign name in Irish, let's say "Philadelphia", > is it with dots or not? But here, I can answer: you did not read what she wrote: when writing with "Roman script", she writes a dot; when writing with "traditional script", she does not. > (For example, old German in Frakkur typeface has been decided to be > just different font, but the same lattin letters as we know today) Like U+017F? ;-) > If it is a different letter, then you should use U+0131 LATIN SMALL > LETTER DOTLESS I where appropriate, Well, going this way... > and all should work smoothly ... not so sure... > (except for spellcheckers and such, ... and keyboards, and existing applications, UIs, etc. and fonts that have it wrong (rendering U+0069 dotless), and it needs very strange "Roman script" fonts, where U+0131 should be rendered with a dot! Here for sure you will surprise a lot of Turks, and even much more people!!! Antoine
