Philip Paeps wrote in <A799AAE0-6F7A-4877-9C98-01C70A208137@trouble.is>: |On 2022-11-19 03:14:01 (+0800), Brian Inglis via tz wrote: |> On 2022-11-17 23:09, Bin Li via tz wrote: |>> Do you have any plans to change Turkey's name? Because it's the |>> official name now. |>> https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1102841197/turkey-changes-its-official-na\ |>> me-to-turkiye |> <https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1102841197/turkey-changes-its-official-n\ |> ame-to-turkiye> |> |> One of the stupider ISO decisions, as English supports no accents, |> except in loanwords, and they are just ignored, except possibly in |> academic publishing. | |English would not be English if it weren't for its liberal (promiscuous |even) adoption of loanwords from around the world. There is ample |precedent in ISO 3166 for all manner of what you call accents: Åland |and Curaçao come to mind. | |> I think it is time native English language speakers push back against |> and ignore decisions made by international committees of non-native |> English language speakers, to try and change what native English |> language speakers use to what the foreign language uses in Latin |> alphabet transliterations, just as the other 100+ countries who have |> no "official" transliteration do. | |I think you may be suffering from a severe underappreciation of the |number of native English language speakers in the world. Most of the |more than fifty countries, regions and territories where English is |spoken natively seem to cope just fine with more than 26 letters and any |number of diacritics. | |It's 2022. It's time to stop clinging to ASCII. We can handle bits in |groups of up to 32 without too much of a struggle on most contemporary |computers. That is the right time to propose UN/Locode entries as valid IANA TZ DB citizens. All the world in groups of 5 ASCII letters, the first two of which being the ISO 3166 country code. This thing will come, as trade remains. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)