If fonts still want to display dots on these characters, that's a rendering problem: there already exists a lot of fonts used for languages other than Turkish and Azeri, which do not display any dot on a lowercase ASCII i or j (dotted), and display a dot on their uppercase ASCII versions (normally not dotted with classic fonts)...
The absence or presence of these dots is then seen as "decorative" even if these fonts are not suitable for Turkish and Azeri, but this is clearly not an encoding problem in the Unicode encoded text, and not a problem either for case conversions.
Turkish and Azeri do not use the ij ligature. The sequences i - j and dotless i - j do occur (rarely, as j is a rare letter in both languages) but are treated as separate letters.
In Turkish and Azeri the sequences f - i and f - dotless i both occur, and are fairly frequent. So it is inappropriate in these languages to use fi ligatures in which the dot on the i is lost or invisible, at least where the second character is a dotted i. Has any thought been given to this issue? Is it possible to block such ligation on a language-dependent basis?
Also it is certainly possible that in dictionaries etc in these languages stress might be marked by an accent on the vowel - as certainly in the older Cyrillic Azeri just as in Bulgarian as just posted. In this case the dot should not be removed from the dotted i when the stress mark is added, so that the distinction from dotless i is not lost. Has that issue been addressed? (In my Latin script Azeri dictionary stress is marked by a spacing grave accent before the vowel, but this may have been done precisely to work around this problem.)
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