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This necessarily excludes people whose primary language for communication does not fit in a Latin alphabet.



Terribly inconvenient and a bad idea-- yes. Necessarily excludes-- no. I don't know anything about cuneiform, but if a secure, ubiquitous messenger only accepted that as input I would be counted as one of its users.

Hell, GPG isn't fit for any human users. Yet Debian is still able to hand-crank a extant web-of-trust off of it.


Most of those, in my experience, effortlessly transliterate what they say into the Latin alphabet when they need to use a medium that requires it.




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