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Originally Posted by Polyglot27
Even though Eric does not seem to mind, I find it jarring to see poorly typeset Chinese text with commas and full stops beginning a line.
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It's not that only I don't seem to mind. It's that the people using the same language - traditional Chinese don't mind it.
I want to remind people who are used to read page layout following widely accepted punctuation rules of western language, that although it's quite common sense that comma should not occur in the start of a line, there seems no such common sense for people using traditional Chinese when they are reading traditional Chinese text. For the western world, that common sense is constructed in these hundreds of years, I suppose, but for traditional Chinese, it's still not a common sense or unbreakable rule, since we use standard punctuations in text only in these 80 years. For western people, maybe they will think it ill-formated, looks bad or un-acceptable fault or anything else, but that's not the case for people using traditional Chinese. That means, maybe you judge on a ill-formated traditional Chinese publication based on your own standards, not the standards used by the people who really use the language and read the publication in their daily life.