The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
I hate to say this, but I don&#x27;t see the point in maintaining complicated old writing systems. (I mean, of course I see the historical and cultural value, but I don&#x27;t see why should people keep using it)<p>You write a &quot;new&quot; Chinese character and then there is: a) no way to represent it on a computer unless you draw it b) no way of knowing how it&#x27;s pronounced<p>Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew (ok, they have some common roots), Korean are much more maintainable and &quot;portable&quot;.<p>No, Chinese won&#x27;t be the new English. You get to write and conversate in English in a short time frame (1 yr). Not Chinese. And certainly the learning curve gets steeper the further you go.