On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:46:33 +0100 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote:
> For this reason Turkic > texts *should* encode the hard-dotted lower case i as i+dot above, and > not just as i alone. But when the language used in the text is clear, > the extra encoding of the explicit "hard" dot above is almost always > forgotten and for legacy reasons, most Turkic texts do not use this > extra dot above, but it does not mean that its presence is incorrect > (it will be needed in multilingual documents, or when using some > Medieval-style fonts that do NOT display any dot above U+0069 and > U+006A and that require the explicit U+0307 to render the hard dot > needed for Turkish). If text is going to be processed, i+dot is wrong for Turkish, as the Unicode casing rules for Turkish will capitalise it to I+dot+dot, which should display with two dots. If you're going to use an explicit dot, I'd have said <U+0131, U+0307> would be better, though I still think using an explicit dot is wrong in general. Richard.
