Weird: Different fonts make 臭 look different

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Reply #1 - 2008 March 26, 6:06 pm
snispilbor Member
From: Ohio USA Registered: 2008-03-23 Posts: 150 Website

When I use font Code2000, 臭 looks like a nose above an actual dog (as Heisig would say, a nose above a <i>chihuahua</i>).  When I use Bitstream Cyberbit, though, it takes the correct appearance of a nose above a "big" (big dog).

So I guess the moral is be careful because the kanji's appearance on your computer can be deceiving...

Reply #2 - 2008 March 26, 6:09 pm
DrJones Member
From: Spain Registered: 2007-12-19 Posts: 209

If it looks like 犬 then it's a chinese font, I think. Japanase Kanji that look different using other (japanese) fonts do exist, though. Examples that spring to mind are 家 and 冷.

Last edited by DrJones (2008 March 26, 6:44 pm)

Reply #3 - 2008 March 26, 6:22 pm
Airymon Member
From: Augsburg, Germany Registered: 2008-02-27 Posts: 19

There was already a Hanzi / Kanji font discussion in another thread a few days ago.

Check out this topic if it is similar.

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Reply #4 - 2008 March 26, 8:03 pm
Codexus Member
From: Switzerland Registered: 2007-11-27 Posts: 721

I recommend that you avoid those kinds of all-in-one pan-unicode fonts. They've tried to include characters from all the the most common languages that you could potentially display but unfortunately the same unicode characters are sometimes displayed differently in China and Japan. So they had to choose one variant over the other.

If instead, you use a font specialized for Japanese you won't run into those problems (well, there are sometimes slight differences among Japanese fonts too but at least those are in use in Japan).

Reply #5 - 2008 March 27, 7:35 pm
woelpad Member
From: Chiba Registered: 2006-11-07 Posts: 425

The related non-jouyou (and not even in RtK3, but still pretty common) kanji 嗅, as in 嗅ぐ (かぐ, to sniff, to smell), retains the drop. Isn't it sweet how these old forms survive like fossils for the ardent kanji explorer to discover?

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