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Why is everyone focused on the umlaut? If you don’t have the button, use a “u” and move on.
by Cyph0n 4y ago
Why is everyone focused on the umlaut? If you don’t have the button, use a “u” and move on.
- sk0g 4y agoThe umlauted u is not just a u with some visual flair. "ue" instead would be a more accurate transliteration, but Tuerkiye looks... awkward.
- Cyph0n 4y agoGot it, but I’m saying that using “Turkiye” is better than using “Turkey”.
- blagie 4y agoThings like text search and exact string matching. As minor as it might sound, if 199/200 countries work in your system, capitalism dictates that below a certain business size, the logical thing is often to just ignore the one country and move on. These things have odd cascading effects.
- msm_ 4y agoI have good news for you - text search for non-ascii version of latin characters like ü is a long solved problem. That's because even in non-english speaking countries some people don't bother with diacritics, or they don't have a correct layout at that point, or the text is in source code and has to be ASCII, etc. You can try that now - my browser highlights Türkiye when I search for Turkiye.
- blagie 4y agoGreat! Now do a JOIN in a database with Türkiye in one column and Turkiye in another. It's a problem with well-known solutions. That's not the same as a solved problem. It will be a solved problem when processing a log file in /var/log with Python (or any other tool of choice), it works automatically.
- weberer 4y agoThey are completely different letters. You'd be misspelling it.
- Cyph0n 4y agoContext matters. Is it better to use Turkey then?
- mensetmanusman 4y agoBecause it’s hilarious to try to force the english speaking world to pronounce a name with letters they don’t have.