Text Messages in Chinese and Japanese (WAS: Writing French without accented characters)

António Marques wrote :

>> On a similar topic, when sending SMS messages with a cell phone, do
>> francophones use diacritics or omit them?
>
> I wouldn't know, but I'd guess they generally omit them. That's what we
> do in portuguese, even with T9, to avoid encoding issues if nothing
> else. Though in the case of _e_ vs. _e´_ it feels very odd to omit the
> acute, or the grave in _`a_ vs _a_ (_`as_ without the ` or _e´s_ without
> the ´ don't feel so strange because the <s>, which comes out unharmed,
> is half the word).

Which reminds me. Just how do Sinophones send text messages, which I
know they do in great quantity? Do they use pinyin? What about
Nipponophones? Romaji, kana, or kanji?

Dennis


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