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Asian scripts (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by zedgeist@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ah gotcha I should have figured they probably weren't typing URLs directly that much. I guess I'm probably an outlier even among western users for doing that.