Re: OT: Georgian road signs (Re: OT: Dvorak)

On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Tristan McLeay wrote:

> On 26/07/08 03:45:54, li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET wrote:
>
>> Getting somewhat OT here, but after working in Georgia for the last
>> few weeks, I'm trying to figure out why a lot of the road signs there
>> have undotted <i>'s.
>
> I have heard that Georgia uses dotless i's but just from things like
> your question here. Language Log turned this up when I googled for the
> question:
> <http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003685.html>
> which
> well if nothing else has some photos to prove you're not *completely*
> insane.
Interesting!

I've been annoyed lately to see a few fonts where the <fi> ligature
is such that the hook of the <f> ends to the left of the <i>, so
instead of the hook of the <f> and the dot of the <i> merging, the
dot is just left out. I'm not certain, but I think I've also seen
instances where the dot and the hook are left separate, but the dot
is moved over to the left.

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