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Diacritical marks can be broken down into two types: accents, which affect, roughly speaking, pronunciation only; and umlauts, which affect spelling as well as pronunciation.
However, dropping umlauts is less forgivable than dropping accents, because accents describe pronunciation, and anyone who is familiar with the word will know how it is supposed to be pronounced, regardless of the accent.
In Uighur, it’s spelled with umlauts: Ürümqi.
News services that drop umlauts might deserve some sympathy; given the isolation of North Americans, the assumption is easily made here that the umlaut is an extraneous character that can be dropped—as accents in French often are when French words are transcribed into English—without doing bodily harm to the word in question.
As an interesting aside, German alphabetizes words as if the umlauts were transcribed (so Köln would come before Kohl, for instance), but the Scandinavian languages treat their umlauts as trans-z characters (so in Swedish phone books, Ödlund would come after Zetterström).