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I am Sri Lankan and we have our own language, but most of the the people type the phonetic Sinhala word in English characters and it works really well.

Wonder why that did not happened in Cambodia.

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It did happen, as you can see in the second screenshot in the article.

It seems like I missed the last part of the article. Thanks for pointing it out.

People do, but it isnt really standardised. Article mentions how all the crazy spellings lead to difficulties with things like ML.

Also older people dont always know english characters very well. Some do, or the might know some french so they can figure it out, but not everyone

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