On 16/03/2004 07:14, Jon Hanna wrote:
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The dot in the Latin lower-case letter i is not a diacritical though; there is
no diacritical in "icicle" or on the i in "bord gáis" (it is in
Turkish, hence the distinction between i with and without dots for both capital
and lower-case letters).
I don't think the dot on the Turkish i should be considered a
diacritical either, except in a purely graphical sense; but then a
purely graphical sense cannot be language dependent. To Turks, i is a
separate letter of the alphabet (and sorted as such), not a variant of
dotless i. And there is no language-specific Unicode decomposition to
dotless i plus dot.
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