RE: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-29 Thread Kent Karlsson
Kenneth Whistler quoted and wrote: > > > From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On 2003.05.25, 00:00, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > even if the Dutch language considers it as a single letter, in a > > > > > way similar to the Spanish "ch" > > > > > >

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-29 Thread Pim Blokland
Peter Constable schreef: > Whatever happened to CGJ? Too new, probably. People (and software applications) aren't used to this one yet. Pim Blokland

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-29 Thread Peter_Constable
> I think he meant (the zero-width joiner) used as as markup to > create a ligated variant of a pair of characters Whatever happened to CGJ? - Peter --- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 75

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-28 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Pim Blokland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:45 AM Subject: Re: Dutch IJ, again > Philippe Verdy schreef: > > > i+j is a single combined Dutch ij character only if its not

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-28 Thread Pim Blokland
Philippe Verdy schreef: > i+j is a single combined Dutch ij character only if its not followed by a vowel This is not true; where did you get that idea? It almost always IS a diphtong (cf words like bijen, vrijaf, zijig) except where the i and the j happen to be in separate syllables (bijou, bije

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-27 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Philippe Verdy continued: > From: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 2003.05.25, 00:00, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > even if the Dutch language considers it as a single letter, in a > > > > way similar to the Sp

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-27 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 2003.05.25, 00:00, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > even if the Dutch language considers it as a single letter, in a > > way similar to the Spanish "ch" > > I see one major difference: When you apply extra wide inter-char > d

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-27 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 2003.05.25, 00:00, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > even if the Dutch language considers it as a single letter, in a > > > way similar to the Spanish "ch" > > > > I see one major di

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-27 Thread Mark Davis
MAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 08:03 Subject: Re: Dutch IJ, again > On 2003.05.25, 00:00, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > even if the Dutch language considers it as a single letter, in a > > way similar to the Span

Re: Dutch IJ, again

2003-05-27 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.05.25, 00:00, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > even if the Dutch language considers it as a single letter, in a > way similar to the Spanish "ch" I see one major difference: When you apply extra wide inter-char distance, you (should) get, f.i.: K o r t r ij k and not