NNI						Doc.nr. NC 381 22/95 -
					ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 15 RIN N145
							24th April 1995


Proposal for the introduction of the term 'symbolic letter'

Because the Dutch language contains the letter <ij> as a double character
element and its uppercase representation is <IJ>, there is a need for the
LC_TYPE character class for proper capitalization of multicharacter
elements.

Proposed is to introduce the notion 'symbolic letter' for a string of
letters so that such strings can be manipulated in different functions as a
single character element.