Thanks for the lesson in Japanese characters guys! I have no idea why I never came across anything that mentioned this before but that explains a lot.
-- Ravnox On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:29:52 -0400 David Montminy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
