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I have been studying textfugu and anki a lot on my tablet recently. However, I noticed that android sometimes displays the wrong kanji or characters that aren’t kanji at all. For example, the “orders” kanji shows as this on Android compared to this on Windows. The character shown doesn’t even have the right radicals. Is there any way to fix this so I don’t accidentally learn false kanji?
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Felix.
Some characters look noticeably different in different fonts, including handwriting. 令 is one of them. As is 冷. Since you probably should be able to recognise both, it’d be real nice if Koichi actually mentioned that at all. Tofugu briefly touches on the existence of different styles of kanji in this article but never mentions that different styles can occur within Japanese too.
Give us more examples of “wrong kanji” or “aren’t kanji at all”?
I see, that does seem to be the reason. I agree that it would be useful to know both ways to write the kanji. I assumed the character on android wasn’t an actual kanji, since I couldn’t find it in any dictionary searching by the radicals. I only found it as a Chinese character. 包 also looks different in the android font, it seems to use the “snake” radical instead of the “spring” one.
This one might be down to etymology, I suspect. I’ve only ever seen it with the “snake” radical, though curiously both Koichi and my kanji dictionary describe it as containing the “spring” radical (Denshi Jisho shows the “snake” radical as a component, whereas my other kanji book says the kanji comes from a pictograph of an embryo in a womb, and “embryo” is another meaning of the “snake” radical). Think I might have to see an image of it with the spring radical, because honestly I have no idea.
Whatever you do, please do not commit the Chinese font kanji into memory unless you want to continue confusing yourself.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19660
Sorry, but I’m going to say do commit the Chinese-style version to memory, because you are going to see it in the wild in Japan. Perhaps not in every case (unless they’ve fixed this bug of which missingno speaks) but certainly in this case. Here’s a few examples I turned up just from thirty seconds of Googling:
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/hamatobirth/11344676.html
https://www.nissin.com/jp/news/1585
http://taka-iida.at.webry.info/200805/article_11.htmlFor me it is a huge problem too. Since I’ve begun commuting a lot, I use anki much more on my phone.
I tried to follow this
http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html#installing-fonts
but it didn’t work for me. I was actually just about to ask the same question here too.
I don’t want to learn the Chinese characters instead.I decided to switch the font on Android, so I don’t get confused with the kanji. I used this tool mentioned in the thread missingno15 linked. If your device is rooted, it’s really simple and works well for me. It changes the standard kanji font from Chinese to Japanese characters,
Can I use it if it isn’t rooted. I don’t want to root it?
It’s not possible to change the system font without root access I’m afraid. You either have to get the Anki-internal solution to work or wait for an update and hope that google decides to fix the problem.
Then I’m going to root it. Damn you Google!
I don’t see the big deal. Very rarely are they appreciably different…I’d say just remember them both.
Its no different with english: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web#Included_fonts
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