Japanese fonts

[arila...@gmail.com]

I thought that I posted a question about this earlier today but I don't see it listed so it's possible that it didn't go thru.

I use anki for studying Japanese. I have a mac at home and used to have an iphone with the anki app. I just bought an android phone and now I am having a problem with the font. This seems to be a common issue where, for whatever reason, anki will render Japanese kanji as Chinese characters. 

I have seen several (lengthy) threads about this but I don't see a place that gives concise instructions on the best fix. I'm a bit worried that if I experiment I might lose or somehow corrupt all my data. Can someone help?

Thanks.

[Tim]

https://ankidroid.org/docs/manual.html#customFonts

[arila...@gmail.com]

Thanks.  I think that I followed the instructions listed there but it's still not working.

I downloaded DroidSansJapanese.ttf which appears to be a common font for this.

I copied it to documents/anki/user1/colleciton.media and renamed it _DroidSansJapanese.ttf

I changed the styling of my card to say:

 .japanese {font-family: "myfont";}

@font-face { font-family: myfont; src: url('_DroidSansJapanese.ttf'); }

(the template uses class "japanese")

I synced my mac's version of anki.

I synced my android's version of anki.

I expected to see the problem fixed, but didn't.

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[Charles J. Daniels]

People regularly seem to have issues with custom fonts -- but they also seem to always be able to get it working out. I use custom fonts and have going on years now. Some fonts just don't work for some people, so I'd never try one font and leave it at that. Something else I would recommend is to just get ~any~ custom font to work, no matter what language, that way you can see that you can get one up and running, and use it as a template. Because if you're doing something off, no search for a working Japanese font will play out well. So try a funky English font, get that working, then you know you can set it up.

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[Tim]

Try Google noto. If it doesn't work on anki desktop there's a problem with your template. If it works on desktop but not ankidroid, the font file probably hasn't been copied across properly

[Charles J. Daniels]

Also, if it works on desktop but not ankidroid, it may have copied across properly and ankidroid just won't support it. Font support, I believe, is subject to system/device specifics, updates, etc.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Tim <perceptu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try Google noto. If it doesn't work on anki desktop there's a problem with your template. If it works on desktop but not ankidroid, the font file probably hasn't been copied across properly

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[Tim]

Google Noto should work on all devices

On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 4:22:59 PM UTC+9, chajadan wrote:

Also, if it works on desktop but not ankidroid, it may have copied across properly and ankidroid just won't support it. Font support, I believe, is subject to system/device specifics, updates, etc.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Tim <perceptu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try Google noto. If it doesn't work on anki desktop there's a problem with your template. If it works on desktop but not ankidroid, the font file probably hasn't been copied across properly

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[Charles J. Daniels]

Oh I get it, I see the point you're making, about why desktop working but android not, with the case of Noto, would lead you to posit the font file not synced. I can imagine, though devices abound (like nooks, etc) -- so universally consistent font support is not reliable alone for determining the cause, especially if the file ends up staring you in the face.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Tim <perceptu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Google Noto should work on all devices

On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 4:22:59 PM UTC+9, chajadan wrote:

Also, if it works on desktop but not ankidroid, it may have copied across properly and ankidroid just won't support it. Font support, I believe, is subject to system/device specifics, updates, etc.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Tim <perceptu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try Google noto. If it doesn't work on anki desktop there's a problem with your template. If it works on desktop but not ankidroid, the font file probably hasn't been copied across properly

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[arila...@gmail.com]

I got it working. Thanks guys. BTW, I think that there might be an error on this page of the anki manual:

http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html#installingfonts

It says: "To add a font to Anki, it must be in the TrueType format. TrueType fonts have a filename ending in .ttf, such as "Arial.ttf"".

But when I downloaded the noto font, it was in .otf.

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