Re: No diacritics in English

*** T. Winter <***.Winter@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > J, U and W were not used in Latin (and Y and Z were only for Greek
> > loanwords). In Italian, J is considered a variant of I,
>
> And something like that was true even in German writing. :-)

You could still find the same *much* later. As late as 1976 when I
drove by car through Germany we have gone through the city Jtzehoe.

For typefaces where the I and l glyphs look almost or exactly alike,
I is occasionally replaced with J to avoid confusion. The most
common example is "Jllustrierte" instead of "Illustrierte". Now
that I think about it, I don't remember seeing this in years. Maybe
it has gone out of fashion.

Also in Germany the assignment of letters to digits on telephones
was: 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, 4 = D, 5 = E, 6 = F, 7 = G, 8 = H,
9 = I + J, 0 = K.

In what context did this assignment ever appear?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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