Feature request: Dutch IJ, ij ligature #51
Description
In Dutch, “IJ” is a digraph standing for a vowel, usually corresponding to a “long I” sound or “final -y” sound in English. “IJ” is capitalized and spaced as one letter, also called lange ij (“tall ij”), to distinguish from the sequence ei, called korte ei (“short ei”), which now stands for the same sound.
↑ Dutch Wikipedia article for “polar bear”. IJsbeer is cognate with “ice bear”.
The capital IJ is often designed like an interrupted U.
↑ Image source. The word Slijterij (“liquor store”) is shown vertically in tiles, with each “IJ” being spaced in one tile.
↑ Another example of capital “IJ” as one letter.
Unicode has a code point for IJ (U+0132) and ij (U+0133), and Montserrat (a similar Gotham-esque font) implements the ligature for that code point. I would love to see it implemented.