>On Tue, 2/9/16, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote:

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> This is only a font problem, not an Unicode problem. For
> me the IJ (or ij) with combining double accent is correct.
> Tell this to font authors so they fix their common fonts in
> later versions (here Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Google,
> possibly others, should be hearing your issue for popular
> OS'es and applications).

Perhaps Unicode could create a ‘default position’ property for combining 
characters, and encourage OpenType and other font engines to adopt it for 
automatic use when no other font information is provided. Adoption would take a 
while, but I cannot help but think that otherwise, this issue will never go 
away.

David

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