Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Dutch "ij" Message-ID: <975@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 16:28:07 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.975 Posted: Sat Mar 2 16:28:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:24:13 EST References: <727@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 11 [Ij got a flij in mij eij ...] It is considered equivalent to "y", even when alphabetizing. The Dutch don't care if you don't make it a ligature. (On the other hand, I remember designing such a ligature on a TI 99-4.) Yes, it can be capitalized - there's a body of water called the "IJ." (Also known as the "Y", naturally.) -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...decvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel