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		samatman on Jan 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "l... Swahili, Hawaiian, Italian, that's just off the top of my head, there are many others. Hawaiian uses ' as a proper letter, granted.

Liquid_Fire on Jan 9, 2020 [–]

Doesn't Italian use accented vowels in some cases?

samatman on Jan 9, 2020 | [–]

Ah, yes of course it does. Silly me.

None of this detracts from the greater point, being that we need a way for all writing systems to somehow squeeze down into the subset of ASCII supported by legacy protocols.

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