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Realistically, the choice is going to be between Turkey and Turkiye. Most people aren't going to go through the hassle of adding the umlaut. Countries can reque

Realistically, the choice is going to be between Turkey and Turkiye. Most people aren't going to go through the hassle of adding the umlaut. Countries can request that people refer to them anything within reason, and in this case reason dictates that it be constrained by ASCII characters like every other country in the world. I think people might make the exception within certain formal contexts, but not in a random Hacker News post.

vlabakje90 2y ago
Not every other country in the world only uses ASCII, Ivory Coast is officially called Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
- TheAceOfHearts 2y ago
  You're demonstrating the exact point by showing that they have an ASCII name and an official one. If you're having a regular conversation with someone you're probably going to use Ivory Coast and not the French name.
  - PhilipRoman 2y ago
    ...or, as some languages do, even "translate" it by pronounciation: Kotdivuāra
  - lxgr 2y ago
    That's arguably an English name, not an "ASCII name". (If there was one, it would probably be "Cote d'Ivoire".)