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Asian scripts (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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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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