Re: Comprehensive East-Asian support

[Mitsuru Oka <oka debian or jp>]

At Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:03:06 +0800,
Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org> wrote:
> 

> Does this imply that Japanese text is often written with a right-to-left title
> line, and a vertical body below it? Interesting. I hadn't thought of that as a
> possibility. So, there is one more special mode of Asian language handling to
> consider. Maybe I should buy a Japanese and a Korean newspaper, and try to
> figure these things out for myself. There is usually enough Hanzi that I can get
> some kind of idea what the text is about.

I put some Japanese newpaper images and Japanese novel book
image in my web site:

  http://www.aist-nara.ac.jp/~mitsu-o/pango/

These are typical top-to-bottom text examples in Japanese.
--
Mitsuru Oka