[tz] Country name change from Turkey to Turkiye

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca
Fri Nov 18 19:14:01 UTC 2022


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-name-to-turkiye 
<https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1102841197/turkey-changes-its-official-name-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.

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.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis			Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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