Skip to content
Writing Systems Technical Resources

Retaining a dot on the letter "i"

Sometimes people (or language communities) wish to retain the dot on U+0069 i LATIN SMALL LETTER I even when there is a diacritic above the ā€œiā€. This should not be part of the behavior of the font. Unicode clearly states that the dot should be removed. See Chapter 7 of The Unicode Standard. You should encode it as U+0069 U+0307 U+0301.

retaining-a-dot-on-the-letter-i-1.png

There is a similar expectation for U+006A j LATIN SMALL LETTER J.

This article formerly appeared on ScriptSource.