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minus-squareAeonFelis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoHow is Wingdings “easily readable”?
minus-squareRvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-25 months agoHow about Arabic? Or Chinese, simplified Chinese is read by like a billion people, so clearly easily readable, it even has simplified in the name!
minus-squareAeonFelis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoWouldn’t work. The law clearly specifies the exact text, and it’s in English.
minus-squareKrzd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoCan you write English with Chinese characters?
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoPeople certainly try with Cyrillic. And kanji?
minus-squaregentooer@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-25 months agoCyrillic seems really difficult with all the vowel shifts, English doesn’t even make sense in its own alphabet. Something like “Ай эм де лорд, дай год.” then?
minus-squareshastaxc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·5 months agoIt is easily readable wingdings. It doesn’t say it has to be easily understood or interpreted.
How is Wingdings “easily readable”?
How about Arabic? Or Chinese, simplified Chinese is read by like a billion people, so clearly easily readable, it even has simplified in the name!
Wouldn’t work. The law clearly specifies the exact text, and it’s in English.
Can you write English with Chinese characters?
People certainly try with Cyrillic. And kanji?
Cyrillic seems really difficult with all the vowel shifts, English doesn’t even make sense in its own alphabet. Something like “Ай эм де лорд, дай год.” then?
Er, hebrew?
It is easily readable wingdings. It doesn’t say it has to be easily understood or interpreted.