Japanese script issue : ankidroid displaying chinese script instead of japanese scripted kanji

[B G]

hello, i've been searching for a while for a way to fix this, and i
think other have probably run into the issue as well.
When I import my decks, which i created on my computer's anki, into
anki droid, the japanese script used for the kanjicharacters is often
wrong.
At first I found this slightly amusing, but now it's getting
downright confusing when trying to memorise strokes for a specific
kanji. 将 for instance comes out as something very different in chinese
script. sometimes a caracter will have a line cross where it's not
supposed to etc.
i don't why this is happenning on some characters, while most of the
kanjis and kana's are fine, ie japanese in what is supposed to be the
japanese take on sinograms.- my guess is that it's due to android's
japanese script support, yet i couldn't find any way to fix this yet.
thanks

b

[Nicolas Raoul]

Hi BG,

It looks similar to this problem I had on Ubuntu:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/45977/natty-uses-chinese-character-instead-of-japanese-one

Just to make sure, if you create a flashcard with the verb 直す, does
the kanji show with a vertical bar on the left or not? First is
Japanese, second is Chinese.

Thanks for your feedback!
Nicolas Raoul

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[B G]

hi, yes it's Chinese. I'm getting the same issue, chinese display with
将、化、直、今、値　instead of Japanese and quite a few others.
the same cards were created and display fine on mac os and ubuntu,
which are my computers are running, but android's / or ankidroid's
Japanese support displays Chinese styles scripts for some kanjis.

thanks

ben

On Aug 4, 10:39 am, Nicolas Raoul <nicolas.ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi BG,
>

> It looks similar to this problem I had on Ubuntu:http://askubuntu.com/questions/45977/natty-uses-chinese-character-ins...

[Nicolas Raoul]

Hi Ben,

I created an issue for this:
http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=701

Could you please post screenshots of these characters on Ubuntu and
AnkiDroid, to show the difference?
You can take Android screenshots with this tool:
http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/

Please also attach your deck to the issue (preferably after deleting
all other cards, leaving only the cards that show this problem)

Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Nicolas Raoul

2011/8/4 B G <champ...@gmail.com>:

[PetriW]

Hello,

My understanding is that this issue is caused by the Han Unification
and Googles crappy support for it. You can find examples of relevant
characters in this wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
(Note, the page doesn't work properly in Google Chrome, use Firefox
instead.)

From what I've read on these groups you can install a japanese font on
your device to solve this, but it requires the phone to be rooted:
http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/wiki/Installation#Adding_support_for_special_characters_on_Android

Another way to solve this is using the custom fonts feature in
AnkiDroid 0.7:
http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/wiki/UsingCustomFonts
If you use a japanese ttf font the characters will display correctly.
(This is how kanji.koohii.com displays correctly in chrome for
example.)
The disadvantage of custom fonts however is that it doesn't always
work:
http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=613

I've also heard you can solve the problem by buying a japanese android
phone. (They use different default fonts.)

Best regards,
Peter

On Aug 4, 8:12 am, Nicolas Raoul <nicolas.ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I created an issue for this:http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=701
>
> Could you please post screenshots of these characters on Ubuntu and
> AnkiDroid, to show the difference?
> You can take Android screenshots with this tool:http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
>
> Please also attach your deck to the issue (preferably after deleting
> all other cards, leaving only the cards that show this problem)
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback!
> Nicolas Raoul
>

> 2011/8/4 B G <champsli...@gmail.com>:

[PetriW]

Perhaps I should mention that you have to use the correct fonts in
Anki as well for the characters to display properly. (As far as I can
see.)

For fun I tested this in Anki and it doesn't work:

<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: sans-serif;">
<span lang="zh" xml:lang="zh">与</span>
<span lang="zh-Hans" xml:lang="zh-Hans">与</span>
<span lang="zh-Hant" xml:lang="zh-Hant">与</span>
<span lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">与</span>
<span lang="ko" xml:lang="ko">与</span>
</span>

I have to specify the actual font names to use for the characters to
display correctly in Anki. I'll post the 1 character deck I used to
issue 701:
http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=701

On Aug 4, 1:38 pm, PetriW <peter.bartholds...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My understanding is that this issue is caused by the Han Unification
> and Googles crappy support for it. You can find examples of relevant
> characters in this wiki article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
> (Note, the page doesn't work properly in Google Chrome, use Firefox
> instead.)
>

> 与与与与与From what I've read on these groups you can install a japanese font on
> your device to solve this, but it requires the phone to be rooted:http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/wiki/Installation#Adding_support_f...

[B G]

thanks, I will do that. I think it's really a font / android issue, as
the same issue is popping up in a japanese dictionnary app I use,
AEDICT. it has character drawing recognition, OCR, which also seems
affected by the issue.
I don't really remember what I did install for japanese font support,
appart from SIMEJI, which works pretty well but also has the same
issue. I just typed 文化 将来 in the google search bar and the, let's say
unorthodox character came up for 化 and 将

ben

On Aug 4, 3:12 pm, Nicolas Raoul <nicolas.ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I created an issue for this:http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=701
>
> Could you please post screenshots of these characters on Ubuntu and
> AnkiDroid, to show the difference?
> You can take Android screenshots with this tool:http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
>
> Please also attach your deck to the issue (preferably after deleting
> all other cards, leaving only the cards that show this problem)
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback!
> Nicolas Raoul
>

> 2011/8/4 B G <champsli...@gmail.com>: