Re: Dutch "ij"

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 22:00, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  --- John Cowan wrote:
>
> > > Just curious: are there other examples in the world's languages of similar
> > > behaviour?
> >
> > Absolutely.  Spanish has always treated "ch" and "ll" as single letters
> > (despite the recent craven decision by the Royal Academy to change
> > traditional sort order, where "cinco" precedes "chile"), but types
> > them as two and capitalizes them as "Ch", "Ll".
> > Croatian takes the same attitude with "dz" and "dz^", which have
> > single-letter correspondents in Cyrillic script.
>
> Of course! But what I had in mind was especially the double capitalization. I
> have never heard of a language that writes CHile, LLull, or DZ^ambul...
This may well mean absolutely nothing, but there's a couple of
interesting characters in Unicode starting at U+01C4 (a part of Latin
Extended B). In the PDFs from the Unicode webpage, they're called
'Croatian digraphs maching Serbian Cyrillic Letters'. They encode LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER DZ WITH CARON and LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SMALL
LETTER Z WITH CARON and LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ WITH CARON (as well as
similar triplets for LJ and NJ. I have no idea whether it means
anything, especially given John's post. It could be that the cap forms
are only used when someone wants to be ugly and typeset in all upper
case.

Tristan.

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