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by necovek 41 days ago
Decoupling choice of script from "symbols representation" is a weird approach — this is how people type them out.

Yes, problems are not unique to Slavic languages, but at least for _some_ Slavic languages, Cyrillic has been taken to the most simplified form that is _accidentally_ easy to process on a computer too.

But yes, I was a bit too absolutist, I agree — as ever, everything is more nuanced, so perhaps not "trivially provable", but in "closer to full differentiation in graphical representation while being simple and unambiguous to process on a computer"?

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Most Latin-based scripts are just as unambiguous ;)
But the point was if this holds true for Slavic languages: my claim was it does not, as supported by the discussion.