Not unique if you add standard transcription systems. The Library of Congress standard is to capitalize also IA, IU (plus diacritics), TS etc. when being the first letter of Russian names. They are also taken to be units when abbreviating a name.:
Author: Got´e, IU. V. (IUrii Vladimirovich), 1873-1943. Martin Heijdra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:07 AM Subject: Re: "IJ" unique? > At 07:49 -0400 2002-07-16, John Cowan wrote: > >Among those scripts which traditionally treat certain two-letter > >combinations as single letters (Spanish "ch", Croatian "dz"), is > >Dutch unique in titlecasing "ij" as "IJ"? > > I think so. > -- > Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com > >
