| ▲ | qingcharles 3 hours ago | |
They're confusing a few things by saying kanji is written top-to-bottom. Direction applies to all Japanese text, not just kanji -- which are simply one type of moji (characters). The traditional vertical format is called 縦書き (tategaki), and unlike the modern horizontal style (left-to-right), it runs top-to-bottom, right-to-left. Here's some tategaki lyrics I wrote as an example: https://codepen.io/kingcharlesone/pen/abgdPgZ And if you want a really crazy (worst case) localization test, here's tategaki which includes English, Arabic, Hindi and some math: | ||