Font on Android vs PC (Anki)

Bull007 · 2016-03-02, 6:37 am

I use anki both on my pc and adroid however on the android some kanjis look a little bit different. Can someone tell me some detailed explanation on how I can put the same font which I have on my pc to my android

ryuudou · 2016-03-04, 4:10 am

Change the system language to Japanese.

Zarxrax · 2016-03-04, 6:25 am

Ankidroid has had a long and complex history regarding using different fonts. I remember spending huge amounts of time getting it working in the past. I think they have probably gotten it working better now though. See this section in the manual: https://ankidroid.org/docs/manual.html#customFonts

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jimeux · 2016-03-04, 8:06 am

For some reason Android defaults to some kind of Chinese-Japanese-Korean compatibility font when the OS language is English, and it looks terrible. As Ryuudou said, changing the OS language to Japanese will use a standard Japanese font. It's more of an inconvenient workaround than a solution though, and Google is to blame for not providing something better.

As for AnkiDroid, you can use custom fonts by copying them into the media folder (the filename should be prefixed with an underscore), and then specifying them with CSS in the card styles (follow the link in Zarxrax's post). I have a bad feeling that the entire font is loaded into memory each time a card is loaded card though, since there's a significant delay with the stroke order font on each of my cards, despite having a device with 2-3GB of RAM.

pm215 · 2016-03-04, 6:22 pm

I took the approach of making sure my card layouts included the html markup to set the language tag to japanese -- then the Android html renderer will pick the right glyphs from the system font regardless of your UI language settings.

tokyostyle · 2016-03-05, 2:08 am

(2016-03-04, 6:22 pm)pm215 Wrote: I took the approach of making sure my card layouts included the html markup to set the language tag to japanese -- then the Android html renderer will pick the right glyphs from the system font regardless of your UI language settings.

Gah, how can you post this without the markup? Wrap the entire card template in <html lang="jp"></html> ?

pm215 · 2016-03-05, 4:14 am

I wasn't at my desktop machine so didn't have convenient access to the card definitions :-)
You wrap everything in <span lang="ja"> </span>. Here's my "card back" template for my grammar deck, for instance:

Code:

{{FrontSide}}

<hr id=answer>

<span lang="ja">{{#Reading}}{{furigana:Reading}}<br>{{/Reading}}{{^Reading}}

{{Expression}}</br>{{/Reading}}<br>

{{#Answer}}Answer: {{Answer}}{{/Answer}}</span>

{{Notes}}

toshiromiballza · 2016-03-05, 4:57 am

If your phone is rooted, it's simple to prioritize Japanese over Chinese encoding.

EuPcsl · 2016-03-05, 9:34 am

(2016-03-04, 8:06 am)jimeux Wrote: For some reason Android defaults to some kind of Chinese-Japanese-Korean compatibility font when the OS language is English, and it looks terrible. As Ryuudou said, changing the OS language to Japanese will use a standard Japanese font. It's more of an inconvenient workaround than a solution though, and Google is to blame for not providing something better.

As for AnkiDroid, you can use custom fonts by copying them into the media folder (the filename should be prefixed with an underscore), and then specifying them with CSS in the card styles (follow the link in Zarxrax's post). I have a bad feeling that the entire font is loaded into memory each time a card is loaded card though, since there's a significant delay with the stroke order font on each of my cards, despite having a device with 2-3GB of RAM.

You can use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...v.kanjifix

uchuu · 2016-03-05, 6:26 pm

You can have a custom font imported into Anki, which I did last night for my RTK deck as it was showing me incorrect characters. This thread was helpful and I just want to do a quick writeup of what I did so that anyone else with issues can just go step-by-step and fix 'em.

Instructions:

Download an acceptable font here: http://www.freejapanesefont.com/ make sure that it doesn't say it has a limited amount of Kanji (such as some of the handwritten ones)
Rename the TTF file you download to have a _ in front of the file name (ex: _smincho.ttf)
Put the renamed TTF file into your Anki Media folder
In the card that you want the custom font in, add this to the bottom of the "styling section"

Code:

@font-face { font-family: myfont; src: url('_arial.ttf'); }
Change '_arial.ttf' to the name of the TTF file you have in the Anki Media folder. Case sensitive.
In the ".card{" part of the styling section, change the font-family field to say "font-family: myfont"
As long as you don't have any HTML overriding your default settings in the styling section (such as a span field), then this will make the whole card in the font you want
Sync anki with ankiweb

Happy reviewing. This is the font I'm using on my RTK and Core2K deck: http://www.freejapanesefont.com/honoka-mincho-download/

Bokusenou · 2016-03-05, 10:28 pm

Here's a way to change the system language to Japanese if it's not a choice in settings, and your device isn't rooted:
http://droider.eu/2013/11/03/how-to-get-...and-above/
I've done it on two different devices, and it went off without a hitch.

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