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A comment on Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school students from 2020. Parent comment

Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by digianarchist on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:04PM (#18869437)
Characters can be mapped to their phonetic equivalents no?
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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by FabHK on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:27PM (#18869644)
Yeah, but not back (in other words, a mechanical mapping won't preserve sufficient information to disambiguate). It's definitely not trivial.
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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by knolax on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:27PM (#18869636)
But they can't be mapped back.
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