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Yes it's not bad but not great either. It would only help in certain situations (hello vs Ꮒello). It also becomes tricky if you permit Turkish, as you would h
by frobozz 9y ago
Yes it's not bad but not great either. It would only help in certain situations (hello vs Ꮒello). It also becomes tricky if you permit Turkish, as you would have to allow mixing of ascii and the dotted vs dotless i.
There are also good reasons to mix language in a name. US state abbreviations might be used to distinguish (e.g.) a diaspora community in Texas from their equivalent in Alaska.
- rspeer 9y agoDotted and dotless i is a different issue, related to capitalization. Those are still Latin letters. Of course to support most European languages you have to be able to use ASCII and non-ASCII Latin letters together. That's not unique to Turkish. Think of the Spanish word "cañon", for example. It's not four English letters and one Spanish letter, it's just five Latin letters (four of which are in ASCII).
- frobozz 9y agoThere is a difference between ı and i in both cases. I don't know what you mean by 'related to capitalisation' The reason I raise Turkish specifically is that the similarity between the characters presents a potential homograph for a phishing attack in non-Turkish domains. (e.g. mıcrosoft.com). Characters with apparent diacritics are less vulnerable (e.g. öracle.com).