Typography of the East
summary
Practical CSS techniques for East Asian and Arabic typography are demonstrated: using writing-mode for vertical text, ruby annotations for inline phonetic labels, text-combine-upright for vertical digits, and handling bidi quirks where punctuation and exclamation marks flip in mixed RTL/LTR lines. The demos show browser differences (working fully in modern Firefox, IE falling back), and recommend native reviewers plus roughly two months of focused experimentation to develop reliable production patterns.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:13Far East markets outlook
- 8:53Chinese punctuation
- 13:52Japanese typography and ruby
- 24:30Arabic typography and RTL
- 31:17Content prep for localization
- 34:36Q&A
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