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Japanese is my favourite written language, I love English but I'm definitely jealous of the beautiful glyphs and the vertical writing. From what I've seen, vertical writing is often poorly supported in software though, which is a shame.
Need a 3D Japanese input device: https://landing.google.co.jp/double-sided/
Japanese is my favourite written language, I love English but I'm definitely jealous of the beautiful glyphs and the vertical writing. From what I've seen, vertical writing is often poorly supported in software though, which is a shame.
I'm partial to Mongolian.. It also has top to bottom but has an Arabic lace like cursive style which makes it flow much better than Japanese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script
At first I thought it was a descendant from Arabic, but a Wikipedia detour shows that the most common ancestor is actually Aramaic script.
https://github.com/mitoma/kashiki2?tab=readme-ov-file#%E5%AE...
This kind of effect works especially well for Japanese, with its curved strokes inside square character boxes.
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I'm partial to Mongolian.. It also has top to bottom but has an Arabic lace like cursive style which makes it flow much better than Japanese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script
That's a very cool script! And it looks remarkably like Arabic. At first I thought it was a descendant from Arabic, but a Wikipedia detour shows that the most common ancestor is actually Aramaic script.
It looks like some kind of alien runes. It's not vertical and has discrete letters but nevertheless, looks nice.
So this does not get flagged: https://github-com.translate.goog/mitoma/kashiki2?_x_tr_sl=a... Also, hotkey(s) for a set of predefined isomorphic camera views would seem useful; maybe I am not seeing it? https://github.com/mitoma/kashiki2/blob/main/kashikishi/asse...
I asked ChatGPT 4o to translate the README: https://chatgpt.com/share/6700bed9-1198-8004-8eed-07f5055d07...
The translation seemed largely consistent with what Google Translate provided, but some of ChatGPT’s translation differences seemed more plausible to me, and it certainly reads more coherently. It also doesn’t keep forgetting that it’s dealing with the proper name of the program.
I didn’t try Gemini for this, but I imagine it has to be decent at translation too, so I wonder if/when Google will use Gemini to assist, replace, or otherwise complement Google Translate.
Missed opportunity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AduxwY3m87M
Japanese is my favourite written language, I love English but I'm definitely jealous of the beautiful glyphs and the vertical writing. From what I've seen, vertical writing is often poorly supported in software though, which is a shame.
I'm partial to Mongolian.. It also has top to bottom but has an Arabic lace like cursive style which makes it flow much better than Japanese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93#/m...
which is actually a fairly legible example. Admittedly, the more flowing styles that you see in old poetry and the like effectively require specialized training to read. Beautiful, though!
