On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:57:11PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > I'm having some issues displaying certain hiragana characters under > Kubuntu 10.10. Basically, some characters are missing a stroke > segment. This is apparent in applications such as Firefox and Mnemosyne > but not in Abiword, Konqueror or Kate. Out of the 51 basic hiragana > set, I have this problem with 8 characters. > > I thought that this could be a font size related issue but decreasing > the character size in Abiword does not reproduce the problem, > increasing the size in Firefox or Mnemosyne does not fix the problem > either. It's as if both set of applications are using a different set > of fonts. > > For comparison, a look at the character sa on my system: > > http://arkanox.net/tmp/sa.png > http://arkanox.net/tmp/saB.png
Those are actually two valid ways of writing that character. Japanese was traditionally written with a brush, and sometimes between two parts of a character the brush would trail slightly and leava a mark. This, by the way, is why stroke order is so important -- it identifies which parts of a character may be expected to be sometimes connected and soemtimes not. -- hendrik > > This all work fine under Windows 7 and Firefox. I'll have to upgrade > Kubuntu to the latest at some point and maybe this will go away, maybe > this won't. Google search hasn't been much help at all regarding this > issue. > > -- > Ravnox > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
