Re: Inverted 2 and inverted 3 in Unicode?

From: Miguel Carrasquer (mcv_at_wxs.nl)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:27:59 +0200

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:47:08 -0400, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:

>"Wiktor S." <wswiktor@poczta.fmv> wrote:
>
>>> Another obstacle: What rule would tell software to remove the dot
>>> from the letter "i" before applying a diacritic or accent mark?
>>
>>THE rule of removing the dot before applying an accent. Nothing else.
>
>There's nothing about a font that screams "This part of this glyph is
>a dot!" You can't program software to remove dots if the software has
>no way to know what's a dot.

In practice, the rule would be: before applying a (top)
diacritic, replace the character <i> (U+0069) with the
character <dotless-i> (U+0131).

=======================
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@wxs.nl

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