Lookalike characters

[atoklas]

Is there a difference between the german ü in say über, and the Turkish ü in say Türkiye?

They look the same on my computer but I read in wikipedia that they´re different.

This is what worries me about getting into IDNs -- there are so many characters that it must be easy to reg the wrong ones.

 

[Rubber Duck]

Is there a difference between the german ü in say über, and the Turkish ü in say Türkiye?

They look the same on my computer but I read in wikipedia that they´re different.

This is what worries me about getting into IDNs -- there are so many characters that it must be easy to reg the wrong ones.

The Turkish character is different. If you enter it from a real or virtual Turkish Keyboard it will generate the right Unicode/Punycode. It you cut and paste it from Turkish text it is almost certain that it will do this.

 

[atoklas]

Thanks Rubber Duck,

So say I want to register a name with a Turkish ü in it. I'm sitting in the UK using an English keyboard. How do I enter it into a registrar search box to see if it's available and reg it, without entering the German ü by mistake.

I don't need to go to Turkey do I?! :D

 

[Fka200]

You don't need to go to Turkey, do not worry. Check your PM.

 

[atoklas]

I typed über.com on a Turkish virtual keyboard and über.com on a German virtual keyboard. When I converted them I got:

xn--ber-goa.com

for both.

So this means that the Turkish ü is the same as the German one, right?

 

[mulligan]

ü or capital Ü punycode is xn--tda
It is used in German and various other languages:

Umlaut (diacritic). In orthography, the term umlaut is sometimes used as a shortening of "umlaut mark", a diacritic similar to the diaeresis mark (a pair of dots above a vowel, as <ä> in "doppelgänger"), used in German spelling to represent the synchronic results of Germanic phonological Umlaut, and subsequently in other languages which borrowed the symbol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut


So, yes you are correct...


Turkish alphabet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet

German alphabet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_alphabet
NOTE: The extra 3 diactrical letters in the German alphabet...

 

[Rubber Duck]

ü or capital Ü punycode is xn--tda
It is used in German and various other languages:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut


So, yes you are correct...


Turkish alphabet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet

German alphabet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_alphabet
NOTE: The extra 3 diactrical letters in the German alphabet...

Search on it without the accents and then sample from the results, which should include the accents. If you sample from authentic Turkish text, it will have been generated on a Turkish Keyboard. If you are having problem, switch to Turkish version of Google and select result from Turkey.