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Re:The Roman typefaces used in Chinese and Japanese text by masklinn on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:27AM (#8555706)
> FYI Korean script (Hangul) is actually an alphabet, so relatively easy to type.

Japanese is typed using kana, though they're syllabaries and have about twice the number of characters as hangul, the end-result is mostly similar (so is the on-the-fly transformative effect, in japanese kana entry is transformed into kanji OTF, in hangul jamo get merged into natsori).

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Re:The Roman typefaces used in Chinese and Japanese text by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:10AM (#8555987)
Japanese can be typed as kana, but most people type rōmaji (Latin characters).
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Re:The Roman typefaces used in Chinese and Japanese text by wodenokoto on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @08:52AM (#8556452)
Most people on a computer. Most people type kana on their phone.
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Re:The Roman typefaces used in Chinese and Japanese text by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @11:39AM (#8557440)
Yes, that's true. Japanese is, luckily, a language quite suited to cellphone number pad input.
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