You need to dot every İ, not dot any I, dot every i, not dot any ı, and cross every t in Turkish

by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2013/04/04 07:01 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2013/04/04/10407543.aspx

A couple of days ago, friend and colleague from Microsoft Damit Senanayake put a link up on my Facebook wall (timeline?) written by friend and colleague from Unicode Tex Texin:

Tex's Internationalization for Turkish: Dotted and Dotless Letter "I" sells itself short by summarizing itself as a

Discussion of the Internationalization problem with the dotted and dotless letter 'I'

because this contribution does so much more than that. - it talks about the history and the alphabet and the encodings, and more.

I have touched on some of the issues in blogs of mine over the years, to be sure.

But even if I put them all together in a tag, what Tex has assembled here is an awesome resource -- HIGHLY recommended!

I'll add a few blogs of mine for additional supporting material and fun stories:

• The [Upper]Case of the Turkish İ (or: Casing, the 2nd)
• My first (bloggers) geek dinner and the sequelae, at Orlando TechEd 2005
• "It makes total sense when you explain that the Turks have four I's"
• "It makes total sense when you explain that the Turks have four eyes", aka Transcripts are hard, let's go shopping!
• New in Vista Beta 1: more use of the word 'linguistic'
• Turkish Character in Directory Name Hung Windows NT 3.5, aka small enough to be internationally stupid

Enjoy!

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