Case for letters j and J with acute

[Markus Scherer]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
wrote:

> On 9 Feb 2016, at 11:18, ACJ Unicode <unicode at acjs.net> wrote:
>
> > This is taught in writing in primary school in the Netherlands (or at
> least it was 30 years ago), but this practice is often abandoned soon
> afterwards, probably because of the technical difficulty. The only way to
> achieve this digitally appears to have LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
> (U+00ED) be followed by LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J (U+0237) and COMBINING
> ACUTE ACCENT (U+0301).
>
> It is a font rendering issue. A pre-composed j́ will not be added to the
> standard.
>

The regular 'j' has the Soft_Dotted property, which means that when you add
a diacritic-above, the dot should go away.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/#Soft_Dotted
When the dot does not disappear, please submit an error report for the
platform/browser you are using.

>       • it adds complexity to automating the process of adding emphasis
> to vowels;
> >       • technical support is understandably lacking;
>
> True, but for technical reasons pre-composed characters will NOT be added
> to the standard.
>
> >       • LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH ACUTE;
> >       • LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J WITH ACUTE.
>
> This just won’t ever happen.
>

Technical reasons include
http://unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html#Normalization

markus
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