I suspect this is far more important for Asian markets than the US -- non-Roman text has a far harder time rendering on low-resolution displays than our fonts due to a greater number of elements per character. This would allow a much greater amount of Japanese or Chinese text to be displayed at a time.
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I suspect this is far more important for Asian markets than the US -- non-Roman text has a far harder time rendering on low-resolution displays than our fonts due to a greater number of elements per character. This would allow a much greater amount of Japanese or Chinese text to be displayed at a time.