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tertius_decimus OP t1_ixq1zzf wrote

Reply to comment by IAlwaysReplyLate in Ignorant question to Asians by tertius_decimus

Xah Lee site is exactly what I was searching for! Thanks alot! Due to Google's algorithm clusterfuck policy, finding such small useful sites like this becomes increasingly difficult, especially if one doesn't know how to word the search inquiry properly.

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IAlwaysReplyLate t1_ixq3hxs wrote

Google isn't the only search engine, you know ;) Try Qwant.com or start.duckduckgo.com, or pick a Searx implementation to combine multiple engines.

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IAlwaysReplyLate t1_ixq57wi wrote

Oh yes, the other thing I could have mentioned is code pages - the predecessors to Unicode, specific to a language or an area. Japanese had two or three, and eventually they worked out a way of switching between them automatically... but the way they found breaks Unicode, so old web pages written for Shift-JIS can go strange if the browser thinks they're in Unicode!

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