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Re:Breaking our Latin-1 assumptions (2017) by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:19PM (#31795548)
Nothing in Unicode prevents rendering Western languages in cursive. It's just that nobody wants to do the intensive work to generate the layouts and manage the required fonts as was done with Harfbuzz.
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Re:Breaking our Latin-1 assumptions (2017) by winety on Sunday June 19, 2022 @09:06AM (#31798970)
There are cursive typefaces for the Latin script, e.g. [1]. There might even be some free ones. Making (good looking) fonts is hard work, but I don’t think making cursive fonts is that much harder.

[1]: https://www.dizajndesign.sk/en/font/skolske

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Re:Breaking our Latin-1 assumptions (2017) by sacrosancty on Sunday June 19, 2022 @08:15PM (#31804847)
That supports my idea. People don't much care about cursive in English because we're already adapted to isolated characters.
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