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The Chinese newspaper I usually read is top to bottom, left to right. So are the vast majority of the other newspapers and magazines on the rack, the last piec
by xiaoma 17y ago
The Chinese newspaper I usually read is top to bottom, left to right. So are the vast majority of the other newspapers and magazines on the rack, the last piece of fiction I bought and my book on go. I also encounter a good number of MS word documents, including contracts printed that way.
That said, top to bottom is just too much of a pain to deal with on the web until CSS supports it.
- theli0nheart 17y agoSure, there are some, but vast majority? That's stretching it, a lot, unless you're in the historical section of a bookstore. This is my experience in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai.
- xiaoma 17y agoI'm neither stretching it nor hanging out in the historical section of bookstores. I live in Taipei. Not having gone through the cultural revolution, character simplification and various other imposed measures, top-down writing is much, much more common in Taiwan, and HK. The same is true to a lesser degree in Japan.