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Re:Text editing hates you too (2019) by skrebbel on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:15PM (#27239330)
How would you use extended-ascii to write Arabic?
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Re:Text editing hates you too (2019) by superjan on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:46PM (#27239760)
The following was actually used:

https://www.charset.org/charsets/iso-8859-6

There’s no single byte encoding for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean though.

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Re:Text editing hates you too (2019) by enqk on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:21PM (#27240114)
In practice, young folks write arabic with roman script when they chat. (with numbers to supplement the missing letters)
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