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I don't follow your argument. PCs weren't popular because they couldn't handle the Japanese language encoding, but somehow, consumer electronics were popular because they could handle the complex tasks with the language?

JIS C 6226, the encoding for the Japanese language, was made in the 70s. While later than the US, I would not call it late.



Early consumer electronics don't have substantial text entry.

In the 1980s, a major goal of AI research was to make CJK text entry effective and convenient (OCR or alternatives). It didn't pan out in time.

When the necessary tech was reading, emoji was huge in Japan first because it helped mitigate the text entry problem.




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