Izmir, Turkey

Elizabeth Carey-Smith · September 2015

Is there some Turkish accent I don't know about, or did Google Maps add a tittle to this capital I?

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Elizabeth Carey-Smith · September 2015

Never mind, @Indra answered my question! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I

Robin Mientjes · September 2015

And if you ever want to handle this in OpenType, I use the proposal by @Adam Twardoch:

feature locl {
    language TRK exclude_dflt; # Turkish
        lookup I_TURKISH {
            sub i by i.TRK;
        } I_TURKISH;

    language AZE exclude_dflt; # Azeri
        lookup I_TURKISH;

    language CRT exclude_dflt; # Crimean Tatar
        lookup I_TURKISH;
} locl;

This way you can exclude the dotted i from being swallowed into ligatures when the dot is significant to the language.