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 #### Features 🚀
 
+- Many non-Latin languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean) are usable now that multi-byte characters are measured correctly. [#817](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/817)
+
 #### Improvements 🧹
 
 #### Bugfixes ⛑️