Re: What works (was Re: Hangul script type)

From: John Jenkins
Message: 685
Date: 2001-11-14

On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 12:51 PM, David Starner wrote:

>
>> In the case of Deseret, there are no descenders or ascenders. Except
>> when
>> a word is capitalized, each word is rectangular, which makes it hard to
>> distinguish words without parsing them.
>
> This is the same flaw as Cyrillic has, isn't it? And Cyrillic's one of
> the world's four large 'international' scripts (Chinese, Latin, Cyrillic
> and Arabic).
>

And, of course, Chinese has the same problem, as do Hebrew et al. I think
this is just my bias as a Latin reader showing through.

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