21.   Vietnam is preparing again to pay tribute to Alexander de Rhodes, the Jesuit missionary who helped devise an easy-to-learn writing system for Vietnamese.

22.   Vietnam is preparing again to pay tribute to Alexander de Rhodes, the Jesuit missionary who helped devise a writing system for Vietnamese.

23.   While most Japanese agree the writing system is a strain, hardly anyone would dream of changing things.

24.   Simplified Chinese is the writing system prevalent in mainland China.