It is not clear what this argument gets at, because: • Other languages also have had a printing press for centuries, and typewriters for decades. (Not just "Ro

It is not clear what this argument gets at, because: • Other languages also have had a printing press for centuries, and typewriters for decades. (Not just "Romantic" languages, by which I assume you mean the Romance languages.) • Cursive can be accommodated on the printing press too, so it has nothing to do with this issue. (In fact, some of the earliest 16-century type founders like Garamond and Granjon also made cursive types.) (In fact, other writing systems have also already been influenced and "modernized" because of the printing press. Those changes have little to do with Unicode or codepoints.) (We had this same discussion a week ago, on another submission from the same blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31794959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31794959 )