Re: The glyph of the CAPITAL SHARP S

From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 10:16:28 CDT

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John Hudson schrieb:
> The fact that it is easier to decipher text when the bottom half is
> covered than when the top half is covered is an accident of the
> evolution of Latin letterforms, not a clue to how we read normal text.
> The arrangement of features could just as easily produce the opposite
> and equally accidental result.

Example: Devanagari (or so I guess)

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