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>One of my main motivations for making this library was dealing with the frequent case where using Japanese text isn't an option for technical reasons, or it is
by Hamuko 6y ago
>One of my main motivations for making this library was dealing with the frequent case where using Japanese text isn't an option for technical reasons, or it is an option but comes with downsides.
The annoying thing is that the Japanese are equally quilty of this. I live in Finland so Ä/Ö are used; I have never ever found a single Japanese online store that accepts Ä/Ö in input (not even Amazon.co.jp). Add a name and address and you're suddenly give a "Please enter only English characters" error.
You'd think the Japanese of all people would know how annoying it is when systems accept a very limited amount of character sets.
- zerocrates 6y agoI wonder how much of this phenomenon is due to some key system somewhere using Shift-JIS or EUC-JP, leading to the restriction to ASCII-ish Latin characters.
- claudeganon 6y ago“English characters” are a part of the Japanese written language at this point, so it makes sense from that perspective. They’re consistent in supporting their own written language, far less so any others.
- Hamuko 6y agoNot really. I'm using Amazon.co.jp in English and I can't enter my address in katakana. Full-width ASCII is also out. Only A-Z here. It's kinda strange since Amazon.co.jp is really easy and handy for international shopping since you can even use it in English. They even precollect the Finnish VAT and DHL ships stuff from there super fast (package leaves Japan on a Friday, is at my door on Monday).
- claudeganon 6y agoI agree that it’s silly Amazon Japan doesn’t support this, but was speaking to the broader point that “Japanese, of all people, should know...” Failing to provide support or consideration to out-groups is a quite common feature of Japanese society. Difficulties arising from those situations tends to be blamed on those on the receiving end of them for being “other.”
- numpad0 6y agoI guess devs are thinking there are only half-with == “English” == `char` and full Unicode can-of-worms mode, and DGAF. Yeah that’s embarrassing, feel sorry for you.