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Re: Dutch IJ with dots
Yes, they can. The Chinese writing system is not as complex as is popularly believed by outsiders. A native speaker of Chinese - particularly the Mandarin dialect, but this is true of other Sinitic …2 -
Re: Dutch IJ with dots
As I noted, back in the 1970s, ij would have appeared on the keyboards of computer terminals in the Netherlands, because it was part of the Dutch national versions of 7-bit ASCII under ISO 646, even…2 -
Re: Dutch IJ with dots
I suspect that more than 0.001% of the Dutch people know that the "ij" ligature exists, if only because they would have encountered it on computer keyboards. I don't think that the si…1 -
Re: Dutch IJ with dots
There were two different versions of modified 7-bit ASCII - ISO 646 - for the Netherlands. One had only lower-case ij, and the other had it in both upper-case and lower-case, but neither of those cha…1 -
Re: Anti-Ink-Traps
It's also interesting to note that a technique analogous to ink traps, called Optical Proximity Correction, has long been used in integrated circuit fabrication to compensate for the fact that f…3
