Op donderdag 29 september 2016 18:02 schreef Doug Ewell:
Kent Karlsson wrote:
I've never seen an ij with an accent. You can safely assume it's
never needed.
See
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenttekens_in_de_Nederlandse_spelling#Klemtoonteken
I note with amusement that this Wikipedia page, presumably written and
edited by Dutch speakers who we often hear insist on the precomposed
letters, contains more than 30 instances of IJ or ij (the separate
Basic Latin letters) and zero instances of IJ or ij.
íj́, as others have observed, is trivially simple.
The precomposed version isn't recommended anymore.
The ij evolved from ii, because ii is indistinguishable from ü in handwriting.
Alex.
