Talk:Descender

Doubts

I have serious doubts about that Latin bit -- Greek and Arabic, e.g., have some letters with parts that descend below the line. Do those fit the definition of "decender"? If so, the article should be changed. If not, then perhaps the article could state why. I'm not the typographer, though. --Kbh3rd 03:16, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The Cyrillic and Greek alphabets certainly contain letters with descenders. I have removed "in a Latin alphabet". —Coroboy (talk) 03:16, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Underline and Descender

How is underlined text with descenders typographically handled best?--Hhielscher 15:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation

This really needs to be converted into a disambiguation page.

Galt57 (talk) 18:47, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Typeface without descenders

Aren't there typewriter fonts that do not have descenders?--92.228.224.65 (talk) 19:01, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Letter modification "with descender"

Unicode has a lot of modified letters that are namend "… with decender". I think it should be mentioned here and if there is a common meaning of this "modifier" it should be explained here, too. What do you think? --RokerHRO (talk) 09:59, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Inclusion of Thai script

I find the inclusion of Thai script odd. There are many alphabets / typology systems that include descenders. (Cyrillic and Greek are two that come immediately to mind.) Why include only Thai? Yes, a wider worldview is often sought at Wikipedia, but we can't include all alphabets, and since this is the English language Wikipedia, the use of the Latin alphabet used in English seems to be a logical choice. If there are no objections, I propose to remove the Thai section. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 13:21, 23 September 2025 (UTC)