For Microsoft, the only way to spell "turkey" the bird is Türkiye [View all]

I just had the oddest auto-correct - I typed "turkey" into Microsoft Notepad (the most basic text editor in Windows, and that why I like it - no start-up time, no fancy stuff I don't want - or at least that's what I thought), in the context of the bird (ie lower case, though "context" shouldn't matter with Notepad), and the damn thing autocorrected it to "Türkiye".

So I find out not only has Notepad got a setting saying "autocorrect is on" - and far worse, it has "AI features - Copilot", which was on, and there's no way I ever chose that, nor was warned about it - but Microsoft's (British) English dictionary thinks there's only one form of the word that is correct - the new name of the country, starting with a capital 'T'. This applies in the Microsoft Edge browser too, and I'd guess in Word and other Office stuff, but I don't use that.

WTF, Microsoft? It's a bit of brown-nosing to insist on the new spelling for the proper noun (remember, it is an authoritarian country right now), but to delete the lower-case name of the bird? It's goddamn illiterate.

And sneaking Copilot into the no-frills "just edit the text, for god's sake" program is insidious. Has it been reporting what I've typed into Notepad?