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On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:23:57 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> It amazes me that computers can handle Chinese. Not only display, but
> keyboards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWi-9LJ4dg4

Japanese is as bad. There are over 2000 kanji characters you have to know 
to be reasonably literate. Both China and Japan have tried to simplify 
that character set for centuries and have gotten it down to four or five 
thousand though the exact count isn't known.

I can't imagine...