> Marion Gunn raised a question which I'd paraphrase as, How can continuance > of > dotless-i be guaranteed in Irish texts? By "guarantee," I take this to > mean in > all representations regardless of font selection--i.e., the underlying > form vs. > the surface form.
If it's really necessary to facilitate that, Marion (or whoever) should propose a variation-selector sequence. As for the sociolinguistic issues, the factors and perspectives on those questions have filled more than one book. > The only affirmative answer I saw to Marion's > questions was > that OpenType may soon support alternative characters for diffrerent > languages. It supports it now; it's a matter of when applications will start to support that functionality. > and we're not all experts. Gee, we're not? Peter Constable
