Subj : Blijf Tonijn
To   : Konstantin Kuzov
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Mar 02 2017 22:17:28

Hello Konstantin,

On Thursday March 02 2017 12:37, you wrote to me:

 KK> P.S. What's written there?
 MV>>  * Origin: Blóf Tønón

It is supposed to read "Blijf Tonijn" with the 'ij' replaced by the ligature' (code point U+0133) and the 'o'  replaced by an o with slash.

 KK> There are some strange 0x7F character:
 KK> 0620   20 4F 72 69  67 69 6E 3A  20 42 6C 7F  C3 B3 66 20
 KK> 0630   54 C3 B8 6E  7F C3 B3 6E  20 28 32 3A  32 38 30 2F

Obviously something went wrong in code translation. There shoulf be no '7F' and the code should be "C4 B3", not "C3 B3".

The 'ij' is the 25th letter in the Dutch alfabet. It takes the place of the 'y' in the English alfabet.

https://graphemica.com/%C4%B3

Today it is normally written as the bigraph 'ij' but on old Dutch typewriters it was one character. There is no glyph for it in any of the 8 bit character sets that I know of and as a result the Dutch ligature 'ij' became archaic with the coming of computers.

With Unicode it came back. So I thought this was good for my origin line.But apparently there is a snake in the grass....



Cheers, Michiel

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 * Origin: Blijf Tønijn (2:280/5555)

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