Shufei 🧮<p><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Vertical+writing&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns12=1&ns200=1&ns202=1&searchToken=vtm1d09u2iyi9e668pfvpe5u" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php</span><span class="invisible">?search=Vertical+writing&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns12=1&ns200=1&ns202=1&searchToken=vtm1d09u2iyi9e668pfvpe5u</span></a></p><p>It’s 2025 and:<br>- There is still no vertical text site mode for <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimedia</span></a> in any language using vertical text.<br>- <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> still forces “simplified” Chinese on browsers.<br>- There is still no true IDS or CangJie composition matrix for characters in <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a>. <br>- SignWriting still has no proper <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> inclusion, no IDS analogue, no inventory of signs, and is still mostly written by mouse drag and drop in a mishmash of SVG and HTML.<br>- There is no proper SignWriting IME, such as a Rime schema.</p><p>To say this state of affairs is cultural propaganda by mass technic inertia would be an understatement. Infotech is functional colonialism. Thats really all there is to say.</p><p>Filed under <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/%E5%B4%87%E6%B4%8B%E5%AA%9A%E5%A4%96" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>崇洋媚外</span></a></p>