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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by robocat on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:52AM (#22864171)
Here’s an example of a form: https://president.mn/mng/?page_id=72

It shows multiple design issues, how some are resolved and some are not. From Wikipedia: “it is the only vertical script that is written from left to right. (All other vertical writing systems are written right to left.) This is because the Uyghurs rotated their script 90 degrees anticlockwise to emulate the Chinese writing system.“

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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by tapirl on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:02AM (#22865343)
A combined influence result of ancient Chinese writing style and Arabic?
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by Ericson2314 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:38AM (#22866528)
And yet the english characters are rotated clockwise?
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by Ericson2314 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:48AM (#22866660)
Oh duh, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogdian_alphabet the syriac whence it came was right-to-left, and by rotating the English in the other direction they both go down.
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