Yes - the problem is that "i" and "I" are standard ASCII characters, while the dotted I and the dotless i are not. Creating special "Turkish I" and "Turkish i"

Yes - the problem is that "i" and "I" are standard ASCII characters, while the dotted I and the dotless i are not. Creating special "Turkish I" and "Turkish i" characters would have been an alternative, but would have had its own issues (e.g. documents where only some "i"s are Turkish and the rest "regular" because different people edited it with different software/settings).