Re: Dotless J with stroke.

On Dec 11, 2007 9:58 AM, Andreas St=C3=B6tzner <[email protected]> wrote=
:
> Would we accept a naming "LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED LONG S" for what we
> commonly know as being the Latin f ? That's it.

We accept LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OI for something that has no relation
to OI. In the larger world, we accept the United States of America for
a country that's far from uniting all the states of America. Names are
just names, and they're often less than accurate.

> Perhaps you're suprised because you've seen for the very first time
> this letter as it ought to look like.

Perhaps how the character ought to look like has been defined long
ago. The art of the typographer requires working within the range of
what's currently acceptable.