Talk:Turkish dotted and dotless I

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Can someone please explain in layman's terms how the dotless I is pronounced? No IPA stuff, and no scientific terms about which parts of the mouth should move where, thanks. — JIP | Talk 10:02, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

There's a sound sample at close back unrounded vowel. Muntfish 10:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Why cause Turkish dotted and dotless letter I problems on Turkish computers? --84.61.43.168 14:02, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Most codepages did make Turkish difficult. What should have been done was to encode six letters:

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I

LATIN SMALL LETTER I

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DOTLESS I (Turkish, Azerbaijani)

LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I (Turkish, Azerbaijani)

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT (≡I+combining dot above)

LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DOT (≡i+combining dot above)

This would have made representation of multilingual texts much easier, and would have done away with any language-specific case mapping. —Typhlosion 18:14, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

but encoding homographs in a traditional code page would have meant losing other letters or symbols and would have introduced all the issues associated with homographs (text that looks identical but isn't,having to make sure you enter the correct one of a set of homographs etc). Plugwash

[edit] Open questions

Why has neither Unicode nor ISO-8859-9 separate code points for English and Turkish small dotted I? --84.61.35.152 09:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Presumablly whoever standardised them considered them to be the same letters. Plugwash 18:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Precisely. Similarly, there is no special code point for Turkish lowercase dotted I. Its just a lowercase I. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)