Hi, On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:10:52 +0200 A BELHOUANE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While trying to input the Japanese word tsumetai, I found that the kanji > for the "tsume" part doesn't look the same as in my (paper) japanese > lessons in several Japanese fonts including ttf-kochi-mincho. I found at > least one font set that displays it the same: the fonts in the > ttf-mikachan package (also maintained by GOTO Masanori, that's why I > chose ttf-kochi-mincho for my bug report). > > To find the character, for example, use the program gucharmap, and > search for "U+51B7" or input the kanji, then compare the display of the > selected glyph using the font Kochi Mincho then the font Mikachan.
> References to what should be the official glyph: > http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=51B7 > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4E00.pdf > My Japanese knowledge is very limited, but I didn't find hints that the > two pictures are to be considered equivalent nor that this issue has > been known anywhere. If there is an explaination why they would be > equivalent, please let me know and close the bug. Thanks for your report. The answer for this issue "Why those glyphs looks different?"... Because of those "Typeface" are not same. At http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=51B7, left kanji character "The Unicode Standard" is kaisho. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisho) and right one is mincho or gothic. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincho) When I (and other Japanese people) write Japanese word "tsumetai", it is written with near kaisho typeface. Mikachan font is handwriting font, so it is near kaisho typeface, than mincho or gothic. # and most of Japanese (include me ;-) don't think such difference, consciously. Okay? -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
