Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot
From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Dutch "ij"
Message-ID: <727@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 14:43:36 EST
Article-I.D.: decwrl.727
Posted: Mon Feb 25 14:43:36 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 09:49:18 EST
Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP
Organization: DEC Engineering Network
Lines: 9

Can anyone qualified speak about the "ij" in Dutch?  Is it properly speaking
a ligature?  Does the capital form occur?  Is it an important character?
Does anybody have ideas about why it didn't make it into the ISO 8-bit 
character set?

L S Chabot
UUCP:	...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot
ARPA:	...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
USFail:    DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA  01752