Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR
by Freak_NL on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:26AM
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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'.
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.