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The wheel continues to turn. The Internet has spread and connected PCs across many linguistic systems and scripts. Operating systems now routinely support not just multiple fonts but multiple writing systems and keyboard mappings to use them. The PC on which I am writing this has its browsers configured to display HTML pages in Western European languages, in Turkish, Japanese and Korean. | The wheel continues to turn. The Internet has spread and connected PCs across many linguistic systems and scripts. Operating systems now routinely support not just multiple fonts but multiple writing systems and keyboard mappings to use them. The PC on which I am writing this has its browsers configured to display HTML pages in Western European languages, in Turkish, Japanese and Korean. | ||
After its initial fascination with graphic design, web design now looks more like typography. My mouse rests upon a mousemat that shows me how to key the extended Western Latin ASCII characters less easily reached from the keyboard. (Or see Bringhurst’s ingenious mapping in ''The Elements of Typographic Style''<ref> | After its initial fascination with graphic design, web design now looks more like typography. My mouse rests upon a mousemat that shows me how to key the extended Western Latin ASCII characters less easily reached from the keyboard. (Or see Bringhurst’s ingenious mapping in ''The Elements of Typographic Style''<ref>[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0881791326/5jt-21/026-0122895-4126017 The Elements of Typographic Style] Robert Bringhurst, Version 2.5, 2002, Hartley & Marks, Vancouver BC, Canada. ISBN 0 88179 132 6</ref> and my review of it.<ref>''The Solid Form of Language'' Robert Bringhurst, 2004, Gaspereau Press, Kentsville NS, Canada. ISBN 1 894031 88 1 · Reviewed in ''Vector'' 21.2 [http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10009840 “Liquid Mathematics”]</ref>) My girlfriend manages to use Macintosh and Windows mappings for Japanese without a diagram. I can usually manage the same for APL, but have a diagram above my monitor for when I can’t. | ||
=== Signs of the times === | === Signs of the times === | ||