Welcome to the Turkish language, where we have ı, i, I and İ. In our language the conversion is as follows:
- i <-> İ
- ı <-> I
We love our dots and preserve them. For a more detailed read, please see:
- i <-> İ
- ı <-> I
We love our dots and preserve them. For a more detailed read, please see:
If your program can pass “The Turkish Test”, you pass a lot of others too.
That connection through language goes a long way.
müqəddəs bacı millət :)
> The use of "i" resulted in an SMS with a completely twisted meaning: instead of writing the word "sıkısınca" it looked like he wrote "sikisince." Ramazan wanted to write "You change the topic every time you run out of arguments" (sounds familiar enough) but what Emine read was, "You change the topic every time they are fucking you" (sounds familiar too.)
Also the article explicitly says "it looked like he wrote". So when you see red, that last letter can become anything and nothing would change.
Turkish preserves the dots of i, ö and ü in their capital versions, but not with j. The capital J is dotless.
> - ı <-> I
After seeing this, I don't understand how the rest of us can fail to have the same distinction. There's something logically beautiful -- like the rhyme in a good poem -- about artificial languages (or, in this case, alphabets) that naturally evolved languages just cannot compete with.
Speakers of Turkish generally build words with vowels from either of these exclusive groups:
aıuo
eiüö
You see? They could write "ä" instead of "e" to have all bright vowels dotted and mirror the symmetry. But because "e" was already available and pronounced like that in other dominant languages of the time, they stuck to it. No need to break conventions. This didn't work for "ı" because there was no corresponding letter in the Latin alphabet. So they loped off the dot from i and called it a day. A pragmatic decision. Except that the capital version had then to be dotted to keep the distinction. That caused a lot of headaches downstream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_harmony
...but it's notably absent from the Indo-European languages.