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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by mistrial9 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @08:35PM (#22344874)
partial story here -- lots of work was done on CJKV input systems, in each decade, but in many Asian markets (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam for SURE) piracy was rampant, which does not feed an R&D cycle.

Unicode was standardized, then the utf8 format after that, which *nix took full advantage of, but other legacy software (see paragraph 1) did not evolve in some cases.

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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by pcr910303 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:59PM (#22345258)
Piracy is rampant to all popular software; I’m not sure how the conclusion that Asian markets have a higher pircy rate than the western market was reached. I’m pretty sure that MS Office is pirated in the US at least as much as Korea.
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