RE: Dotless J with stroke.

Kenneth Whistler <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:52 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
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> (I'm far from an IPA expert, but...)

> So I would conclude that an esh-like or turned f-like glyph would just
> be approximants, and not the intended glyph for any font. So please
> make Latin small letter dotless j with stroke and hook look according
> to its name 

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ipa/nonpulmonic.html

There is very little point in designing a glyph that
looks significantly different from what the IPA
shows there in their own charts, because the point
of U+0284 is to serve as *that* character.

The Unicode representative glyph could be tweaked
a little to match the IPA glyph more closely. In particular,
the bar should be a little higher, and it wouldn't
hurt to distinguish the top hook a little more from
the top hook of the esh.

But other than that, talking about how a dotless j
with stroke and hook should look, based on its name,
is an exercise in futility. Asmus is correct.

--Ken