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Google and Adobe's pan-CJK open font

Google and Adobe's pan-CJK open font

Posted Oct 3, 2014 15:58 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Google and Adobe's pan-CJK open font by alan
Parent article: Google and Adobe's pan-CJK open font

Actually I was looking at a restored 15th century sign.

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Google and Adobe's pan-CJK open font

Posted Oct 3, 2014 19:36 UTC (Fri) by Sho (guest, #8956) [Link]

Korean used to be written using Chinese characters. The rules involve were complicated and limited literacy to an elite, which is a reason why the Hangul alphabet was introduced in the 1440s. Due to various political reasons it took a few more centuries for the population to achieve mass-literacy, using Hangul, however.


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