Someone asked me recently how right to left languages such as Arabic are written on genkouyoushi. The English rule is 2 characters per square, but I imagine this is difficult to do when you switch from vertical script to right to left, and Arabic is a joined script which I imagine makes it difficult to separate characters to a strict "2 per square" rule.
Right to Left languages on Genkouyoushi
- Thread starter Marybeth
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- 22 Feb 2008
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It's written just as it is (horizontally right to left, but rotated 90 degrees to the right) with ignoring the lines of squares, thus, treated like a picture or something. If it's relatively long, it might be written horizontally at the end of the document as a footnote.
diligentcircle
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Not that it would actually go this way, but I can't help but imagine, intermingling English text with Arabic text that way and constantly flipping the paper over trying to read it. 
- 22 Feb 2008
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It's for relatively short word, phrase or sentence, as I wrote, so it wouldn't impossible for the writer to guess the necessary space.
