There are more than 6000 languages in the world today and hence many different writing systems. Some background and history (skip to next section) Writing systems
And this got me thinking about Chinese typography on the web.Īgain, this is one of those posts that grew from a cute little cub into a full fledged Giant Panda, sooo here’s a content list. There was also an article by Ahmad Shadeed on CSS Writing Mode that was making its rounds on the interwebs. Like many others with similar backgrounds, we speak both English and Chinese with native fluency, plus a smattering of other languages and dialects here and there.Ī couple of months back, I went down a rabbit hole while researching my article on CSS display and discovered the HTML ruby element. I was born in Malaysia, then studied and now work in Singapore. If you hadn’t realised by now, I am Chinese.
