IJ with accent

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Sep 28 14:33:23 CDT 2016


The right way to do this is to follow the ligature (capital or small) with U+0301 and then have your font draw two acute accents on the ligature. 

> On 28 Sep 2016, at 00:59, a.lukyanov <a.lukyanov at yspu.org> wrote:
> 
> Dutch language writing uses the ligature ij (U+0132, U+0133). When accented, it should take an accent on each component, like this:
> 
> <220px-Bijna.png>
> 
> If one uses two separate characters (i+j), one can put an accent on each character (íj́).
> 
> However, if monolithic ligature ij is used, how one can accent it correctly? Unicode standard does not answer this.
> 
> Probably one should use the sequence U+0133 U+301, with the accent doubling automatically, but this is not implemented (ij́).
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