Regional handwriting variation

There is often something like a "foreign accent" in handwriting.

Many Europeans:

• write numeral 1 with 'hat'
• write numeral 9 like lowercase g (Arial-style)

Many Slavs:

• write 'a' clockwise

Japanese:

• never cross 7

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Crossed 7s are not as European as you might think. Once I saw a Chinese man writing crossed 7s. He said that he picked up the habit in the US!