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Haha yep. I'm Turkish and been using US layout keyboards my entire life. Therefore, I do not use the Turkish characters online. I use S for Ş. G for Ğ and it ju

by eknkc 1y ago

Haha yep. I'm Turkish and been using US layout keyboards my entire life. Therefore, I do not use the Turkish characters online. I use S for Ş. G for Ğ and it just works, nobody ever complained. One word is to get bored that's causing issues. sık - to bore sik - to fuck So if I write "sikildim" to say "I got bored", it actually becomes "I got fucked". One way around it to capitalize. SIKILDIM is "I got bored" but now you are yelling. Typing "sıkıldım" is a hassle on a US keyboard though.

orphea 1y ago
The problem was that Emine's cell phone was not localized properly for Turkish and did not have the letter <ı>; when it displayed Ramazan's message, it replaced the <ı>s with <i>s. Does it make sense? Could the phone arbitrarily replace characters? Or could it more likely that the guy typed dotted i's?
- eknkc 1y ago
  I think the article is somewhat fabrication. There might be some truth to it but it does not make much sense. Technically, ı would probably show up as □ instead of i if the phone had a hard time displaying it. There is also the suffix not matching that change: sıkışınca vs sikişince. A becomes E in that suffix when you switch from ı to i. Even if the phone fucked up, "sikişinca" would look weird.
  - GoblinSlayer 1y ago
    I noticed that countries with latin script use latin-1 encoding for sms, because they never really needed unicode. Then when software converts text to latin-1 or acsii, there's an option to find the best match character in ascii repertoire, I think in that case ı will be converted to i.
    - seba_dos1 1y ago
      It's not latin-1, and it's not ASCII either. It's 7-bit GSM 03.38 charset, with optional shift tables. You can use either that or UCS-2 (though these days phones use UTF-16 instead), and UCS-2/UTF-16 significantly limits the number of characters that fit into the message (160 vs. 70).

by eknkc 1y ago

orphea 1y ago

The problem was that Emine's cell phone was not localized properly for Turkish and did not have the letter <ı>; when it displayed Ramazan's message, it replaced the <ı>s with <i>s. Does it make sense? Could the phone arbitrarily replace characters? Or could it more likely that the guy typed dotted i's?

eknkc 1y ago
I think the article is somewhat fabrication. There might be some truth to it but it does not make much sense. Technically, ı would probably show up as □ instead of i if the phone had a hard time displaying it. There is also the suffix not matching that change: sıkışınca vs sikişince. A becomes E in that suffix when you switch from ı to i. Even if the phone fucked up, "sikişinca" would look weird.
- GoblinSlayer 1y ago
  I noticed that countries with latin script use latin-1 encoding for sms, because they never really needed unicode. Then when software converts text to latin-1 or acsii, there's an option to find the best match character in ascii repertoire, I think in that case ı will be converted to i.
  - seba_dos1 1y ago
    It's not latin-1, and it's not ASCII either. It's 7-bit GSM 03.38 charset, with optional shift tables. You can use either that or UCS-2 (though these days phones use UTF-16 instead), and UCS-2/UTF-16 significantly limits the number of characters that fit into the message (160 vs. 70).