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Re:Text Rendering Hates You by kccqzy on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:23PM (#21109406)
Top-to-bottom writing is not just prevalent in Japanese but also in Chinese too. Pick up any professionally published book in Taiwan and chances are it's written top-to-bottom.
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Re:Text Rendering Hates You by gumby on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:24PM (#21110956)
And Mongolian, Korean, Uyghur...

If you add support for archaic systems you have to handle vertical bottom to top and boustrophedon too.

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Re:Text Rendering Hates You by lifthrasiir on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:25AM (#21113975)
Uh, vertical writing in Korea was famously abolished decades ago when the Chosun Ilbo, a prominent conservative newspaper notorious for its love with now almost dead hanja uses and vertical writing, finally gave up with that in March 2, 1999.
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Re:Text Rendering Hates You by gumby on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:45PM (#21117226)
It’s true — actually I thought it had been abandoned in the 70s but I figured that was recent enough not to be “archaic” like some of the obscure bottom-to-top scripts.
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