Re: CHAT: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch

Robert Hailman wrote:

> Also, what does "ÿ" mean? If I'm not mistaken, that's used in Dutch as
> well.
It's an archaic glyph variant of "ij".  If you tilt the "i" so it runs into
the stem of the "j", then you get "ÿ", where the left dot comes from the "i"
and the right dot comes from the "j".

But it's used as simple y-with-diaeresis in some French words, though I
cannot find an example at present.

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