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Most countries don't use the English alphabet, so I'm not sure if that would work outside the US.

Most countries don't use the English alphabet

I strongly suspect that most countries (and certainly a majority of the world population) use a super-set of the English alphabet though.

Your suspicions are incorrect. Only 36% of the world’s population uses the Latin alphabet.

I stand corrected

If you count Chinese who are using Pinyin that jumps to being a majority using latin.

Even digits can be written differently in other languages.

India is really carrying the torch for using lots of different alphabets.