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There isn't as much ambiguity in the cjk writing though.

It would be similar to mail.com, mel.com, meil.com, mehl.com, melle.com and all other variations that sound roughly the same getting all mapped to meɪl.com

We could live in a world where all words are written phonetically, but we don't. Expanding that courtesy to non alphabetical languages would be a pragmatic and sane approach.



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