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Asian scripts (lemmy.world)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Doesn't Japanese have two writing systems? And one of them looks more like Chinese?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Japan has 3 writing systems and this comic seems to be conflating Katakana and Kanji together as "stabby", leaving Hiragana as "adorable". All of them are (long ago) derived from chinese, but only the Kanji still look similar.

    I would have introduced Chinese first, and then in the Japanese panel present the stabby and adorable ones both being attacked by flying contraptions. (And a few floating around the korean one, too)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've wondered about this too - they must have to use Latin characters a ton too to be on the internet right? Or how does that work? I've never seen web addresses in Japanese.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So like if you search

    鈴鹿サーキット(Suzuka Circuit)

    You get a link to suzukacircuit.jp as a top result, but to navigate directly there I think you have to type suzukacircuit.jp in Latin characters

    You can often change your kanji + kana into romanji (latin characters) as an autocorrect suggestion

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    URLs use a system called punycode to convert to a subset of ASCII that's used for DNS resolution. Not sure if typing in non-ascii script in the address bar would auto-convert in most browsers or not though.

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