[divingdragon]

> Incidently, I saw Japanese text recently that was quoting both English AND Arabic in the same sentence. And this was in a block of vertical text. That is literally a worst-case scenario I think.

Look up Mongolian script and you might change your mind :)

[kingcharles]

Oh Lord. I just looked it up on Wikipedia. It's a vertical-only language for a start. How do you even discuss a vertical-only language in a language which is horizontal? Wikipedia has to write all the script horizontally, which would be like a page talking about English stacking all the letters vertically - it's weird.

From Wikipedia: "Computer operating systems have been slow to adopt support for the Mongolian script, and almost all have incomplete support or other text rendering difficulties."