Quoting Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I don't think it affects Irish, unless you want to be dotless Marıon ın Irısh even when usıng a non-Gaelıc font. The consensus on the list seems to be that Irish should be written with a normal i character and the dot removed in particular fonts.
That's exactly the point. When the dot-convention for lenition is being used, the "i" should never be dotted, even when using a non-Gaelic font, because there's no such thing as a lenited "i" in Irish.
It's not a character-glyph issue.
I'm in Roscommon celebrating my partner's sister's birthday, but I will check some resources I have at home on this issue.
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