Sami@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do people who can read Chinese, Japanese and other non latin scripts use a bigger font size?English
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2 days agoI cant read arabic without zooming in a lot more than I do for latin text
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I cant read arabic without zooming in a lot more than I do for latin text
I think it would be incredibly hard to get people to switch without a compelling reason. Keep in mind that our modern keyboard layout is 150+ years old despite alternatives existing. Arabic letters are very close to English ones in sound but the readability suffers for me at least because it’s written in cursive with a lot of very similar-looking shapes (think of an i with 1 dot on top and an i with 2 dots being 2 separate letters) necessitating bigger font sizes.
English is about half of the internet and the modern lingua franca so unless it gets replaced or evolves over time, either of which would take decades, I don’t think any central body could make that change.