Writing mode and css layout for multilingual websites

[badlydrawnrob]

For different languages
Also could be useful stylistically

⚠️ It get's complicated!!
..... Seems tricky to find good Arabic examples?
..... Grids and Flexbox is hard enough without foreign languages!

Some questions

1. Should books be transliterated?
2. Or should they be in their own language?

For non-natives, it's hard to manage a site that carries international languages as some things are very hard to add, edit, and search for without knowing the language (or owning the keyboard in ___ language)

Some example sites

• Smashing Mag article
• Multilingual site examples
• Localised website examples
• Japanese writing system
• I wonder if Chinese can read in pinyin? Interactive pinyin
  • They do use it for texting to find Chinese characters