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From the date, in Arabic numerals, on the president of Mongolia's website, it looks like they solve that by simply rotating lengths of none Mongolian-content 90
by detritus 7y ago
From the date, in Arabic numerals, on the president of Mongolia's website, it looks like they solve that by simply rotating lengths of none Mongolian-content 90° to fit.
If you're learning to read Latin (etc) script for the first time, it doesn't much matter what it's orientation is - they're just symbols.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoIf you're learning letters then orientation matters unless you have extremely strict orthography. E M W 3 can all be written the same but have different orientations, for example.
- detritus 7y agoThose four glyphs look entirely different to each other to me, no matter which way around I orient my head... :)
- snazz 7y agoThey look more similar when handwritten (in print, not cursive) than they do in Verdana or Liberation Sans (the two fonts used on HN on my devices).
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoMy comment was about orthography, how letters are manually written; the context was learners who don't already know an alphabet. It's not uncommon to write capital-E with cursive strokes so it's a reflected or rotated 3, and lower case m and w are sometimes written similarly - so as to be very close to rotated versions of the same character.
- detritus 7y agoYes, and OP's comment was in relation to higher level computer representation of combined forms, so as interesting as your comment is, at this point it's simply picking threads for the sake of self-amusement.