On the anecdotal front, our native and non-native users of Chinese and
Japanese found the text "legible" once it was pointed out, but there were some
complaints that it slowed reading speed to an uncomfortable pace.
Two questions for those of you in the commercial world:
How many of your products actually on the market *do not* render Hanzi,
Kanji and Hanja text with separate fonts (by separate I mean culturally
tuned typefaces, as opposed to one typeface broken into separate fonts)?
If your product(s) *do not* render Hanzi, Kanji and Hanja text with separate
fonts, what has the user response been like?
These questions are a result of curiosity about software related human factors
as opposed to simply acting as a "gadfly" :-)
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New Mexico State University -- "Svaha," Charles de Lint
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