Of course, editors should be using the ligature (unicode character LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ). But having said that: I'm Dutch and a) I have never used that character and b) I have no idea how to write it on a keyboard.
A: The existing ligatures exist basically for compatibility and round-tripping with non-Unicode character sets. Their use is discouraged. No more will be encoded in any circumstances.
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Of course, editors should be using the ligature (unicode character LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ). But having said that: I'm Dutch and a) I have never used that character and b) I have no idea how to write it on a keyboard.
That's actually discussed in the bug report[1] and apparently its use is discouraged by Unicode.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740477#c2
Unicode has a gazillion code points and it's discouraging us from writing our own language? Really?
http://unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html:
A: The existing ligatures exist basically for compatibility and round-tripping with non-Unicode character sets. Their use is discouraged. No more will be encoded in any circumstances.