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Letter j #26

Open iandoug opened 6 years ago

iandoug commented 6 years ago

Hi

Letter J is not part of alphabet, but Abidjan is economic capital of Ivory Coast and thus is going to get frequently typed in daily use.

So do alphabets allow "permanent loan letters"? :-)

Cheers, Ian

HughP commented 6 years ago

no, not really. This is where an "alphabet" differs from a writing system... Notice how Masai (Kenya) does it: http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=wrSys_detail_sym&uid=ydh37nz7lx

The Auxiliary and Index characters are informally defined in https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-general.html#Exemplars

Index characters are more fully described: http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-collation.html#Index_Characters. This chart might give some sense of how orthography and writing-system relate. orthography

I'd put J in my section for characters needed to write French.