Arcane Jill wrote:

> I sometimes wonder whether or not it was a wise choice to regard
> "LATIN SMALL LETTER I" and "LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I" as distinct.
> Too late to change it now, of course, but (with the benefit of
> hindsight) it occurs to me that if U+0069 had been regarded as
> dotless, all these problems would never have arisen. Western fonts
> could still have rendered it with a dot, Turkish fonts could have
> rendered it without a dot, and everyone would have been happy.

Dotted and dotless I are both used in Turkic languages.  They are not
glyph variants of one another.

> Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm making this up as
> I go along. Don't take any of it seriously.

Agreed.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/


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