https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102596510/turkey-changes-nam...
In any event, if the Turkish government wants me to stop using "Turkey" I'm more than happy to call it Anatolia instead.
No, part of the rationale for the change is to reflect the different pronunciation (Türkiye) has three syllables
> but as a native English speaker I don’t even know what the umlaut does to the sound of the u.
While there is a change to the first vowel sound, and I think an even more subtle change to the second, the biggest difference is the existence of the third syllable, which is pretty evident from the spelling, even to most native English speakers.
I don't say Spain in Spanish i.e. "Espanya" (phonetically) I just say Spain.
That works on Windows at least, don't know about other systems.
And if you are using Windows with, say, US-English QWERTY as your default keyboard layout, its easy to add US-International and switch between them with ctrl-shift; they have the same layout (so your keycaps are still write), but some of the punctuation becomes dead keys that can function either for the punctuation or diacriticals depending on the following keypress.
Because the relationship between the punctuation and the diacriticals they work for is mostly visually intuitive, I find it a lot easier than memorizing Alt-key codes. Especially when using keyboards that don’t have a separate numeric keyboard in the first place like small laptops, and big laptops with relatively powerful dGPUs (the former because of total space available, the latter because they use more space for venting).