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From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: A proposal for a new character standard
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Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 22:14:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 14 22:14:32 1987
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In article <1072@haddock.ISC.COM>, karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) writes:
> 
> Of course, dotless-i could *replace* dotted-i; then dotted-i would become an
> accented character.  We could also save a slot by using i-cedilla for j.  Then
> the dutch ligature ij would be sent as I-dot-ligature-I-dot-cedilla!

No, Karl, it'd be more efficient to use i-ligature-j-cedilla-umlaut (where 
*both* 'i' and 'j' are dotless).

(I knew there had to be a language that combines umlauts and cedillas! :-)

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	John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)