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Anki displaying Japanese characters when I'm studying Chinese

#1
Hey

I'm going through Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 by Heisig, and I'm using Anki for reviews, but it's displaying Japanese characters instead of Chinese.

Anyone know how to solve this?
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#2
Maybe manually set it up to use a Chinese font?
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#3
Did you try using the Chinese card type? Also, are you manually typing them in yourself?

If you are doing both of these things, try the anki forums at ichi2.net/anki and go to forums. Damien should be able to help you out there.
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#4
Nope and Nope. I got the premade deck from the Anki website.
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#5
Where did you get the Anki deck for Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 by Heisig from?
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#6
Download Hanzi deck
Edited: 2009-02-04, 9:59 pm
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#7
deathtrap Wrote:Download Hanzi deck
This is great, thanks! I had started making my own deck from the online preview pages while I was waiting on the book to come, glad to see someone else has already done all the heavy lifting Smile

I'm not sure if this is my computer, or some setting in my Anki, but some of the characters in the deck are showing up slightly different from the way they are in the book.

For example:

真 is showing up as the traditional/Japanese version (the lower horizontal stroke is separate from the upper part of the character). What's weird is when I copy-pasted the simplified character that was appearing weird in Anki into Chrome, it reverted to the form in the book. When I tried copy-pasting the Japanese version from my other Heisig deck into this window to show a comparison, it took the form of the simplified Hanzi as well.

Another example is 刃 appearing with the "a drop of" primitive through the second stroke rather than off to the side. Again, copy+pasting it into my browser it reverts to the correct version.

The problem seems to be scattered, simplifications like 贝 are displaying in Anki just fine. Does anyone know what might be causing this, and how I can fix it? I'm running Windows XP, but noticed a similar problem on my OS X computer at work.
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#8
ethics_gradient Wrote:I'm not sure if this is my computer, or some setting in my Anki, but some of the characters in the deck are showing up slightly different from the way they are in the book.
Select a proper Chinese font for simplied character using the "Settings|Fonts and Colours" dialog. Common ones found on Windows XP are MS Song, Sim Hei, SimSun/NSimSun, FZLiShu II-506T, MS Song, MS Hei and STSong Std Acro.

You might also try the installing the Simplfied Chinese font pack for Adobe Acrobat Reader from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/ac...tpack.html. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and contains the font AdobeSongStd-Light.otf.

There are also addtional "Simplified Chinese ClearType fonts for Windows XP" for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...laylang=en.
Edited: 2009-02-25, 10:09 pm
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#9
xaarg Wrote:Select a proper Chinese font for simplied character using the "Settings|Fonts and Colours" dialog. Common ones found on Windows XP are MS Song, Sim Hei, SimSun/NSimSun, FZLiShu II-506T, MS Song, MS Hei and STSong Std Acro.

You might also try the installing the Simplfied Chinese font pack for Adobe Acrobat Reader from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/ac...tpack.html. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and contains the font AdobeSongStd-Light.otf.

There are also addtional "Simplified Chinese ClearType fonts for Windows XP" for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...laylang=en.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I've installed both those Microsoft fonts (and additionally, the GB18030 font) as well as the Adobe ones (copied them out of the Adobe directory and into the Windows font directory) and restarted, but I'm still having the same issue :-\
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#10
ethics_gradient Wrote:Thanks, I appreciate it. I've installed both those Microsoft fonts (and additionally, the GB18030 font) as well as the Adobe ones (copied them out of the Adobe directory and into the Windows font directory) and restarted, but I'm still having the same issue :-\
Well, did you select one of them in Anki as the "Question font", so it is actually used?
Edited: 2009-02-26, 7:03 pm
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#11
xaarg Wrote:Well, did you select one of them in Anki as the "Question font", so it is actually used?
Thanks, that fixed it.
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