Re: Turkish i/ı

[Michael Everson]

On 12 Jul 2009, at 14:27, Cary Karp wrote:

>> I guess Turkish schoolchildren know the difference between i and ı.
>> I guess we can't make I map to both i and ı at the same time, but my
>> guess is that Turks would be glad to be able to use both i and ı  
>> even if
>> I mapped to i rather than to ı (as they would feel would be the  
>> right
>> thing).
>
> I also suspect that the availability of both i and ı is likely to be  
> the
> primary concern for Turkish IDNs. I'd further venture a guess that any
> use of CamelCaps in the Turkish segment of the bus-sided namespace has
> already been conditioned by the problem with the lower-casing of I  
> to i.

Klingon domain names are likewise impacted, since in Klingon Latin  
orthography q and Q are different letters.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/