Interesting - but wouldn't that involve specifying a language to search in? (And the user knowing how the name is pronounced)
In the specific case of Japanese users, it's not that much of an issue - as mostly their @ handles are in English.
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Yep, but I feel bad for making non-English natives have to express their names in English. What if a Japanese person wants to be cited by an Arabic-native speaker and none of them have good English exposure?
It's awesome that you're even thinking about this. Tbh, from observing on global, people tend to stick to their language communities, are used to having English-alphabet usernames/ handles & this scenario is going to be uncommon.
When Amethyst (Onyx?) & to an extent Damus are the only clients with translation, to many users, notes in other languages may only just be above spam.
Agree. I hate forcing people into language communities. We have to find a solution for this.
I think a pronunciation-based search is an interesting idea. And I watched your video. I think it is an interesting idea to hear the pronunciation. Is there a better way to transcribe the pronunciation into the user's language? The Latin alphabet is used in many languages and the same name can have several pronunciations. Because languages use different phonemes, it can be difficult to transcribe the pronunciation of other languages.