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Seems suspicious that "not used online" languages are declared dead, whereas it might as well be the case that they haven't been truly "born" on the Internet ye
by Grue3 11y ago
Seems suspicious that "not used online" languages are declared dead, whereas it might as well be the case that they haven't been truly "born" on the Internet yet.
The main reason is that the places with the greatest variety of languages also happen to be poorly developed areas with lack of Internet access. As their ability to access the Internet improves, the languages might find a way to thrive (or be defeated by the overwhelming amount of foreign-language content).
Another reason is poor Unicode/browser/font support for various languages. Even some thriving languages suffer from it like Japanese with no vertical writing and furigana support in most browsers. To say nothing of something like Mongolian script. This might also be fixed, which will increase the affected languages' usage on the Internet.
- gizmo686 11y ago>no ... furigana support in most browsers Chrome, IE, Safari and Opera have all supported the "ruby" tag, which is used for furigana, for a while now. Firefox has finally added support in version 38, released in May. Now, I can start complaining about the number of sites that misuse ruby and break highlighting.