Uhm, the examples given in that article are quite an odd mix between typefaces, writing systems and design styles; I don't feel it's really proving the claims in the title.

That different writing systems can have a political connotation is old news and there are plenty of examples; other than the croatian/serbian example given in the article I can think of a few cases:

* the change in the official alphabeth used for turkish ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_alphabet )

* the various alphabets used for berber ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_orthography )

* for the mongolian language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_language#Writing_systems )

* Urdu ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu#Writing_system )

* the birth and adoption of Hangul ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul )

The issues with computer-based typography in non-latin languages are IMHO a completely different point. I believe that the historical reasons for it are quite reasonable, with moving type being especially suitable to the latin (and greek and cyrillic) scripts and calligraphy traditions, and that in turn influencing the developement of computer typography. Nowadays the computers have overcomed the limitations of mobile type and typewriters and it's the right time to do every reasonable effort to support the developement of native typography for non-latin / non-alphabets.

(this is getting quite long, I'll split the comment here and continue later).

(edit: continued the comment)

That different styles of design are used to convey different messages, well, sounds like an obvious point.

This leaves the fraktur case, which is somewhat interesting, but also AFAIK not really as clearcut as the article suggests.

It is true that there is an association with nazi Germany, altought eventually it was the nazi themselves that actually banned its use; as a form of Blackletter it is also associated with the middle ages and often used for that reason in fantasy and generally "Ye Olde" contexts.

The antiqua-fraktur dispute itself was full of ideological connotations, but was also older than nazism. It is true that fraktura was associated with Germany and german values, but not necesarily in a violent nationalistic way.

Other typefaces were introduced or promoted as symbolic of certain values or trends, but most of the times this association didn't last in time, so those historical considerations have limited value in understanding what somebody is telling *today* when using a certain font.

Of course, when done by a designer the choice of font *is* part of the message, altough not necessarily the most easy to understand.