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I could take that complaining seriously if English had single unified spelling system, but as you do each world different anyway, I don't think it is too much to ask to throw some umlauts there and adopt the official spelling.

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I have no real problem with writing "Turkiye" if that's what those from the country prefer - but I don't even know how to type an umlaut on my keyboard. So in that sense, yes, it is too much to ask. I'm not going to pull up a virtual keyboard or google "how to type umlaut" to make a passing reference to a country.

Germans have umlauts and they usually put an "e" after the normal character. You can see this with domain names, for instance: https://buero.de/ (not affiliated) for büro

If you're on windows you can press Win + . (Period) to bring up a character selector, which includes emojis along with various accented characters and others from non-english alphabets

I don't think the average literate English reader really knows how to parse an umlaut - I sure don't.

And while the spelling system isn't necessarily consistent I don't see why we should change words that people do know how to pronounce to ones that we don't?

Do you mean to say that a strange character in one word keeps you from tokenizing the sentence? And hence you cannot make sense of the whole sentence because of that one character (syntax parsing → semantics)? Or do you simply mean that you don’t understand what that one single character is supposed to represent (or just sound like)?

The sound like bit.

We don’t have an equivalent vowel sound to “ü” in English at all. It’s something German learners struggle with.

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