Re: Dotless J with stroke.

Russ Stygall wrote:

> U+025F (LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J WITH STROKE) is incorrectly 
> described as "typographically a turned f ", since the stroke/bar of 'f' 
> is at 'x-height', which when turned would have the stroke/bar on the 
> 'baseline'. 'Dotless J with stroke', as illustrated in Unicode 5.1, is 
> at half 'x-height'!

I have other questions about the design of this letter. Should it, in fact, be a j with a 
bar (the bar at the half-x-height as in the barred i)? Or should it be a turned f with the 
bar repositioned? Depending on the design of the typeface, it is not unusual for the 
descender terminal of the j to be very different from the ascending terminal of the f, so 
this character could look very different depending on the answer to this question (see 
attached).

Of course, the dotless barred j form shown in the graphic is also going to be necessary as 
a glyph variant for soft-dotted U+0249

John Hudson


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