Re: Dutch "ij"

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> 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.
Just so.  These characters were put into Unicode in the hope of a 1-1
transliteration from Cyrillic, but they are mildly deprecated
(Unicode normalization will reduce them to plain "DZ", "Dz", and "dz"
respectively).

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