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Why do kMS, jMS, etc. allow Roman Characters, but gMS disables Asian?
#1
Always kind of bugged me, something like Korean Maple is designed under the assumption that no one there is from the states, but they allow English text fine. Why doesn't gMS do the reverse?
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#2
It's English text but it's not the same. I think the Korean/Japanese character encodings include their own versions of Roman characters, so that's why. Don't quote me on this though, just a guess.
(I predict that someone's going to be a smartass and quote this post.)
e.g.
Chinese punctuation: 。,:;“”
English punctuation: .,:;""
I remember there also being a way to type abc, but I don't recall how.
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#3
But for the most part it is the same, those versions only come up when you are in the (for example, japanese keyboard) in MSE. But I think the main reason is because we don't have a need for those, so why have it in there?
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#4
I would assume that the default maplestory font not having Chinese characters/whatever language would have something to do with it.
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#5
Lozmaster Wrote:I would assume that the default maplestory font not having Chinese characters/whatever language would have something to do with it.

This is something I was going to point out. The default font JMS uses includes roman characters. I don't know about Koreans, but it's not as if Japanese only stick to the kana. Sometimes it's useful to use roman characters (outside of emoticons of course, such as orz). The Japanese actually use roman characters from time to time. Not many English specials use the characters from Asian languages, so why include them? The default font used for Maplestory doesn't include those characters either, and Maplestory is a non-unicode program.
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#6
The only reason why is because the domain names still have to be typed out using Roman characters. That's why this move by Egypt is exciting if not controversial news on the future of the Internet...

Egypt allows Arabic characters for domain name
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