Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 6, 2003, 5:51 |
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--- Jean-François Colson skrzypszy:
>> > > Yep. Luckily, Unicode includes the IJ as a single character :) .
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>Does that mean that any unicode software should use them in the same way?
>When I google for a Dutch word with a lange ij, the results are not the
>same for e.g. "IJsland" (47500 pages) and "IJsland" (only 17 pages).
I think there are two reasons for that. First of all, most of what's on the
internet dates not from before the computer age. But more importantly, our
Dutch typewriters had no way of typing capitalised IJ as a digraph; AFAIK,
only in non-capitalised form the digraph was used, and we were tought to
type "IJsland" the way I just did.
And to be honest, the capital digraph looks ugly and unnatural to me.
Jan
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