{"id":38913,"date":"2004-06-11T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/11\/taiwan-law-requires-writing-to-go-left-to-right-instead-of-top-to-bottom\/"},"modified":"2004-06-11T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T07:01:00","slug":"taiwan-law-requires-writing-to-go-left-to-right-instead-of-top-to-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040611-00\/?p=38913","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan law requires writing to go left-to-right instead of top-to-bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  The BBC reports that  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3683825.stm\">  official documents in Taiwan must now be written left-to-right  (Western style) instead of the traditional top-to-bottom<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>  I grew up with Chinese-language newspapers that ran their stories  vertically and numbered their pages from right to left,  in the traditional manner.  Books and newspapers which run left-to-right look &#8220;wrong&#8221; to me.  But I guess I&#8217;ll have to start getting used to it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that official documents in Taiwan must now be written left-to-right (Western style) instead of the traditional top-to-bottom. I grew up with Chinese-language newspapers that ran their stories vertically and numbered their pages from right to left, in the traditional manner. Books and newspapers which run left-to-right look &#8220;wrong&#8221; to me. But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-38913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The BBC reports that official documents in Taiwan must now be written left-to-right (Western style) instead of the traditional top-to-bottom. I grew up with Chinese-language newspapers that ran their stories vertically and numbered their pages from right to left, in the traditional manner. Books and newspapers which run left-to-right look &#8220;wrong&#8221; to me. But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}