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Monitor: A question of character | The Economist

"SENDING a text message is often the most time-consuming and expensive way to transfer data. Yet it remains popular not only in countries that use Latin-based languages, such as America, Britain and most of Europe, but also in China, Japan and most of Asia, where written languages often have much larger alphabets. Letting people send messages in these languages involves transliterating the text or, in some cases, developing new ways of reading what has been written."
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