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dotted and dotless I glyphs inappropriate for Turkic (and other) usage
Many Turkic orthographies distinguish between a dotted and dotless "I". These orthographies use U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL I to represent the uppercase dotless ⟨I⟩ and U+0130 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE to represent the uppercase dotted ⟨İ⟩. Additionally, some Athabaskan language orthographies regularly avoid putting dots on upper- or lowercase "I" to avoid confusion with ⟨Í⟩.
Examples from Noto Sans:
(U+0049, U+0131, U+0130, U+0069)
"Some Time Later" places a dot on U+0049, and places a very high dot on U+0130, making both glyphs inappropriate for these orthographies:
(U+0049, U+0131, U+0130, U+0069)
Fix:
- Substitute
IotaforI(U+0049) for the following languages: Azerbaijani (AZE), Crimean Tatar (CRT), Gaguaz (GAG), Kazakh (KAZ), Tatar (TAT), Turkish (TRK), Slavey (SLA), North Slavey (SCS), South Slavey (SSL), Chipewyan (CHP).-
dotlessIis inappropriate because it's not the full height of the other uppercase glyphs. - I imagine the dot on
Ilikely needs to be maintained in most usage to map to the origin font, hence the OT language tagging. - Dogrib/Tlicho (
dgr) would also be appropriate but it does not yet have a registered OpenType language tag.
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- Change
Idotaccent(U+0130) to useIotaas its base glyph instead ofdotlessI. - For
U+00CD LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTEandU+012E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH OGONEKfor Slavey (SLA), North Slavey (SCS), South Slavey (SSL), and Chipewyan (CHP), use a new glyph withIotaas the base glyph.