On 6/28/2011 12:21 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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
Exactly,
"Like き <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8D>, the [sa] hiragana
character may be written with or without linking the lower line to the
rest of the character."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%95
See also:
http://japanese.about.com/library/blqow42.htm
Thus, try changing the font and see if it helps.
--
David Montminy
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