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by tinus_hn 3501 days ago
Except by a third of all people who live in China and India. Not everyone speaks a language that is representable in the latin alphabet. In fact, a very large percentage of people do not.
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And it is then worth noting that as it stands, the attitudes of western developers with respect to text input and name lookup has so horribly screwed the Chinese with respect to domain names that they started using numbers instead of letters for their major web properties.

https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websit...

I live in India. I have never seen a non-Latin alphabet domain, except when I opened <some hindi word>.<tld> and <poop emoji>.com just out of curiosity. Could you show me some non Latin alphabet domain names that are used?

I am not claiming that everyone speaks a language that is representable in the Latin alphabet.

China and India don't pose a problem since Pinyin uses standard ASCII characters and neither Chinese characters nor Brahmic scripts have any symbols that resemble ASCII characters.