Re: Chinese RtoL? (Was: Re: RE: Line breaks in [CJK]?)

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 1321
Date: 2003-03-04

Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
> Delightful!
>
> This brings to mind another question. I'm fairly sure that Chinese is
> occasionally written RtoL; however, when, and for what reasons?

The historically normal direction for writing Chinese was columns right
to left.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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