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by workfromspace 374 days ago
> no one can type that u on a keyboard without googling and copypasting it. you might as well insist on using hieroglyphs for CJK things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ü#Letter_Ü

> The letter Ü is present in the Hungarian, Turkish, Uyghur Latin, Estonian, Azeri, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, Kazakh Latin and Tatar Latin alphabets

I see and generally agree with your point, however that "no one" is approx. 120 million people. Just saying.

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Also easily accessible on most EU keyboards, all Macs (long press u), and all mobile devices (long press u again).

Probably 90% of people globally can input the diacritic without difficulty, but even if not, the fallback should be Turkiye, not Turkey.