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Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 7:42
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 ... Andreas

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Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>