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by myfonj 265 days ago
> If you really need to translate ONE WORD, it's not that onerous to type it.

I'm confident that I can type just a tiny fraction of all Latin characters all world languages use. I'm sure that pretty much any Vietnamese word is way beyond my keyboard layout. No clue about writing any non-Latin script. Can you type any Cyrillic, Kanji, Hebrew, Abjad, …, character you see?

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There are also a bunch of characters in other languages that look identical or almost-identical to ASCII characters. It’s very difficult to tell the difference with the naked eye.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack