A question about the IJ digraph
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 5:55 pm
I have had some feedback from the release of Kelvinch (and some of it was even positive).
I was contacted by a Dutch guy who said that the IJ digraph $0132 and $0133 sometimes has an acute accent (over the first character) and sometimes has both characters acute, he said that if he follows the IJ digraph with an acute then it creates a mess in Kelvinch, and he is right, I have tested it.
My question to anyone on the forum who speaks Dutch is :- Is this combination used very much? Would it be extremely useful to lots of people all the time or would it just be of marginal use to a few people occasionally?
He said this combination doesn't work in many other fonts either.
I could probably do this with a simple Open Type substitution, but should it be language dependent (i.e. only if the language being used is Dutch) or should it just be a simple substitution given that this combination won't occur very much in other languages?
Come to think of it I don't even know which languages use the IJ digraph, I must look it up on Wikipedia.
I was contacted by a Dutch guy who said that the IJ digraph $0132 and $0133 sometimes has an acute accent (over the first character) and sometimes has both characters acute, he said that if he follows the IJ digraph with an acute then it creates a mess in Kelvinch, and he is right, I have tested it.
My question to anyone on the forum who speaks Dutch is :- Is this combination used very much? Would it be extremely useful to lots of people all the time or would it just be of marginal use to a few people occasionally?
He said this combination doesn't work in many other fonts either.
I could probably do this with a simple Open Type substitution, but should it be language dependent (i.e. only if the language being used is Dutch) or should it just be a simple substitution given that this combination won't occur very much in other languages?
Come to think of it I don't even know which languages use the IJ digraph, I must look it up on Wikipedia.