write Turkish with a QWERTY Keyboard and without any special switching

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Introduction

There are generally two ways to be able to write in Turkish visiting a website:

• use Turkish Keyboard layout;
• website provides external buttons to represent some six letters that do not exist in a typical QWERTY English keyboard.

I would like to present to the Internet community a third method of writing Turkish that neither expects a special keyboard switching, nor peripheral buttons that hinder the flow of writing Turkish on a website.

Turkish Letters That Are Not In English

There are different Turkish letters not included in English depending on the case. For capital letters the sequence goes like this:

and small-case letters:

Letters that are not in a typical QWERY keyboard should be easily evident. The S with the cedilla, or the g with the breve accent are all subtle differences between Turkish and English.

A Simple Solution

In regular writing it is certainly common to have a space after a punctuation mark, such as the period, or the command, or the colon, etc. If there is not a space after such punctuation marks and one of the letters in QWERTY but not exactly in Turkish could mean a letter we need. For example, if we type "Buras.i Mu,stur" then the software can immediately replace the ".i" combination with the dotless-i letter that is in Turkish but not English. The Javascript code attached to this article precisely does this.

The following QWERTY sequences translates to the following Turkish letters:

and

There is really only one special case for the small-case letters and that's the dotless-i:

Please remember that there is no space in between the punctuation mark and the letter that follows it in order to display the mapped Turkish letter.

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