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Re: Dutch IJ with dots
To me, “fiets” with ligature, looks weird directly after “fijne” without ligature. It looks inconsistent. I would prefer this: Perhaps it looks weird because both “ij” and “ie” represent a single vow…2 -
Re: Dutch IJ with dots
The spelling of Dutch has changed over the years. In the past the “y” has been used, where today the “ij” is being used. In Afrikaans, the “y” is still being used as in the past in Dutch (Dutch: vri…2 -
Re: Dutch IJ with dots
It is not so clear-cut. Some consider “ij” to be a single letter, and others consider it to be two letters. Both “oe” and “ij” represent a single vowel, and are made of two letters (like “uu”, “eu”, …2 -
Re: Dutch IJ with dots
I grew up a few kilometers from where that picture was taken, so I may respond. There shouldn’t be dots on a Dutch uppercase “IJ”. So the dots in the image are a mistake. All occurrences of dots on a…2 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Example of the kind of relationship between lowercase and uppercase I was thinking about in my first question above (Helvetica, Century Gothic, Candara): Compared to other lowercase-uppercase pairs o…2
