On 9 Feb 2016, at 11:18, ACJ Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > This is taught in writing in primary school in the Netherlands (or at least > it was 30 years ago), but this practice is often abandoned soon afterwards, > probably because of the technical difficulty. The only way to achieve this > digitally appears to have LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE (U+00ED) be > followed by LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J (U+0237) and COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT > (U+0301).
It is a font rendering issue. A pre-composed j́ will not be added to the standard. > • It makes casual user input highly impractical; This is dependent on the keyboard layout, not the encoding. > • it adds complexity to automating the process of adding emphasis to > vowels; > • technical support is understandably lacking; True, but for technical reasons pre-composed characters will NOT be added to the standard. > • LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH ACUTE; > • LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J WITH ACUTE. This just won’t ever happen. > • it makes it virtually impossible for type designers to address > properly and consistently. Well, the specification should be í (or i + combining acute) + j + combining acute. Neither dotless i nor dotless j would be correct. > For completeness sake, one could also make a case for the following: > > • LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ WITH ACUTES; > • LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ WITH ACUTES. Or IJ (or ij) + combining double acute. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
