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Old 09-03-2009, 03:29 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
Given that characters are all the same width and are supposed to form an orderly grid (with characters aligned both vertically and horizontally), how is the problem of punctuation ending up as the first character of a line solved?
People don't usually expect text to be laid out in a grid. Think how hard that would be to read in real life. You can vary inter-word spacing just like for Latin-based languages.

I'm not sure where you live, but the easiest thing to do is go to your local Chinatown and take a look at a Chinese language newspaper...
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