Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR
by tremon on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:55AM
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I'm not sure this issue can ever satisfactorily be resolved by ignoring it. Yes, it is customary even among Dutchies to just type i-j because it's easier, but the Dutch alphabet does have a dotted ij as its 25th letter. It's not a ligature in the source language, it is a single letter; as evidenced by the fact that the proper noun IJsselmeer (among others) is written with two capital letters (if not using the single 0x0132 IJ). The letter y does not exist in the Dutch script, only in loanwords (of which we have plenty).
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Stop repeating that nonsense! The current Dutch alphabet has 'Y' as its 25th letter. Not 'IJ'. This is a historical thing.
The 'IJ' is a letter, culturally speaking, in the sense that it is capitalized as one, and that it is often rendered as a single unit (which you can see in vertical lettering, if done right), and sorted as if it was a single letter. In terms of character encoding however, it is a 'i' followed by a 'j'.
Cf.:
* https://onzetaal.nl/taalloket/ij-plaats-in-alfabet (first sentence!)
* https://taaladvies.net/ij-alfabetisering/
See my other posts for 0x0132, which is a compatibility character for rare obsolete character encodings which did encode it on a single codepoint.