----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)
> Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:
>
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > > Outside that specific scope, it makes little sense for ij to be a
> > character.
> > > Certain Dutch-specific fonts may want to recognize sequences of i and
j
> > and
> > > substitute a ligatured glyph, however.
> >
> > How about when capitalising a word starting with IJ? Would you need to
> > include a dictionary with words like IJsselmeer in any program that can
> > capitalise words? (I guess IJsselmeer isn't the best example given that
at
> > least in (we-don't-need-no-stinken-non-ASCII-chars) English it _always_
> > has the capital, but does Word know to not lowercase the J?)
>
> My fairly recent version of Word auto-"corrects" it to **Ijsselmeer ...
I guess your version of Word is too recent and that's a "bug" to be
corrected...
>
> Andreas
>