I've been watching a lot of international football (soccer) these days and noticed this. In the all caps names of the players on their jerseys all the I and Js have a dot over them. I've only seen this in the French league. Is this just affectation or is there a real reason for it?
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I'm a French native speaker.
I never saw a dot over the I or J uppercase letters (except in Turkish).
Must be the mad idea of a jersey designer (we've seen worst in jersey design these days!)
I find it normal to encourage the use of accents on capitals but the dots on I and J are definitely not accents in French.
Affectation ! You're quite right.
Let's qualify this as a "graphic licence", which is more constructive than "affectation"!
(Note to self: Keep French football jersey designers in mind for marketing purposes.)