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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 situati…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 featur…3 -
Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
While the principle is sound enough, Hangul may not be the best example of that. King Sejong certainly wasn't elected. But he was a kindly king, concerned with the common people, which is why he had…1 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
Oh, yes, this is quite common in older French chess books. Such books are represented on the Internet Archive, and in Google Books, among other places. That's because the French name for the Bishop i…4
