Izmir, Turkey

Elizabeth Carey-Smith
Elizabeth Carey-Smith Posts: 39
in Type Design Technique & Theory
Is there some Turkish accent I don't know about, or did Google Maps add a tittle to this capital I?



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  • Elizabeth Carey-Smith
    Elizabeth Carey-Smith Posts: 39
    Never mind, @Indra answered my question! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I
  • Robin Mientjes
    Robin Mientjes Posts: 132
    And if you ever want to handle this in OpenType, I use the proposal by @Adam Twardoch:
    feature locl {
    language TRK exclude_dflt; # Turkish
        lookup I_TURKISH {
            sub i by i.TRK;
        } I_TURKISH;

    language AZE exclude_dflt; # Azeri
        lookup I_TURKISH;

    language CRT exclude_dflt; # Crimean Tatar
        lookup I_TURKISH;
} locl;
    This way you can exclude the dotted i from being swallowed into ligatures when the dot is significant to the language.
  • Kent Lew
    Kent Lew Posts: 1,020
    If {smcp} is present, then one also has to consider including a TRK (et al.)–specific substitution mapping lowercase i to the dotted small cap.
  • Michael Jarboe
    Michael Jarboe Posts: 265
    If {smcp} is present, then one also has to consider including a TRK (et al.)–specific substitution mapping lowercase i to the dotted small cap.

    What would that look like in the above code?

  • Georg Seifert
    Georg Seifert Posts: 682
    edited September 2015
    Just add
    sub i.TRK by idotaccent.sc;
    To your smcp feature. 
  • Taner Ardali
    Taner Ardali Posts: 4
    Hey, it is my homeland :D  İzmir. 
  • Andrew Wood
    Andrew Wood Posts: 42
    Ah, happy memories of living in Ankara and learning Turkish back in the 1990s.

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