Russian. I took a semester in college and actually, learning Cyrillic is the easy part. (It also tends to annoy me when people try to be amusing to use the “backwards R” to make something look Russian themed. It’s actually the character to represent the ya sound. An “R” in Cyrillic is P.)
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Thai, Inuktitut (and others written with variants of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.)
All look so interesting.
Koine Greek:
Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ὁδὸς καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια καὶ ἡ ζωή· οὐδεὶς ἔρχεται πρὸς τὸν πατέρα, εἰ μὴ δι’ ἐμοῦ.
Ego aymi ay odous kai ay adetheeia kai ay zooee. Outdeies erchetai pros ton Patera. Eh may di eumenou.
I don’t care what language as long as it’s a console font on a green monitor. That’s my favorite to look at. Every character takes up the same width and height. Everything is orderly and soothing. And only 256 or 512 characters to choose from, what more could you ask for?
ASCII. Only 128 characters.
Funny you can do Koine greek with those characters, anyway…
I always thought Cyrillic alphabets looked cool.
I’m bored with Thai. I rather like looking at Arabic, although Chinese and Japanese characters can be nice too. Cyrillic as well.
Unicode works in terminals just fine. With (potentially) 32 bits per character (if the standard is expanded to fully cover that space), there’s a lot more than 128 characters possible.
They seem to have a breast fixation.
Telugu script is an example of how many South Asian scripts had to be made of rounded forms. Kannada, Oriya, and especially Burmese scripts are almost entirely made of curves and arcs of circles. They had a very practical reason for this. In the old days, books were written on palm leaves with a pointed metal stylus without ink. By pressing the point of the stylus into the surface of a palm leaf, the incised lines became dark. If they used too many straight lines, it could cause the leaf to split apart along its longitudinal veins. Curvilinear letter forms protected the books from breaking up.