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Old 30th May 2023, 22:54
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Originally Posted by davidjohnson6
When flying out of UK airports, the departure screens (almost) always show destinations in the Roman alphabet with the English-language name of a city.
Paris has realised that the primary languages of some destination cities use other alphabets, and destinations on departure boards alternate between the Roman alphabet and the Arabic/Armenian/Greek/other alphabet depending on destination.
LAX had managed to do this by 1990 in the Bradley international terminal, when dot-matrix screens first came onto the market to replace Solari boards. Not just destination names but complete scrolling messages.
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