The use of ruby annotation is not limited to Japanese. Indeed it is not necessarily limited to any of the Asian scripts. It can be used as an annotation device for many different applications, such as linguistic glossing and annotation.
This slide shows examples of ruby text using Latin, kanji, and katakana for annotating base text.
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