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hyperhellotoday at 2:16 AM3 repliesview on HN

Does this mean I could post some untransliterated text here in a comment and make your browsers all do these computations?


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omoikanetoday at 4:29 AM

I don't think most browsers enable transliteration out of the box.

Lynx does[1], but it does that using iconv, which I think doesn't use UTS #35 transliteration rules.

[1] https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.9.3/CHANGES.html#:~:...

ks2048today at 2:26 AM

I could be wrong, but I don't think it's common for websites to just transliterate any text they're given. Let's check: ウィキペディア

arstoday at 4:01 AM

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but I think it's not the text that is unicode complete, it's the transliteration rules that are.

Unless you install special rules you won't be doing extra computation.