On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > The regular 'j' has the Soft_Dotted property, which means that when you add a diacritic-above, the dot should go away. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/#Soft_Dotted When the dot does not disappear, please submit an error report for the platform/browser you are using. > • 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. > Technical reasons include http://unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html#Normalization markus
