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From: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Message-ID: <4318@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>
Date: 23 Nov 89 15:49:28 GMT
References: <472@enea.se> <2942@psivax.UUCP> <1083@mountn.dec.com> <540@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
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In article <540@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl> dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
>In article <1083@mountn.dec.com> minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) writes:
>>Another missing character is the Dutch ij ligature, 
>
>The 'ij' is *not* a special character in the Dutch language. It is only a
>very common sequence of two characters in our language. We have the

Well, as Martin Minow said, it is a _ligature_, which means that it is
perfectly OK to print it as "i" followed by "j", but in quality
typesetting you should use a specially designed character for the
combination.  I don't think it is necessary to include the ij ligature
in Latin-1 or similar character sets.  They don't contain the fi or
ffi ligatures, either (not to mention kerning information).

The Chicago Manual of Style says that ij should be capitalized as IJ
(for example: IJsland).  How well is this adhered to by the Dutch?
-- 
Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK