I dont know if any of you have noticed, but in android the default font will incorrectly display Japanese characters as the Chinese glyphs. If you are using Android to study, it is worth changing the font to something like TakaoPGothic or a Japanese font which will display the correct characters. For example "骨" character in Japanese should display with a "box" on the right hand side of the top portion, while this character displays as the Chinese glyph with the box on the left hand side in the default CJK font used in android. This, and other characters will display incorrectly, and could cause some confusion.

This link shows the Chinese version
http://unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanDat … point=9AA8

We talked about that a bit on page 4.

Going to be getting the Google Nexus S andriod phone soon. Can't wait to use a lot of the apps there plus having JPN support is a good incentive.

Last edited by ta12121 (2011 December 04, 8:26 pm)

Another question: is there any way to get an android to display Japanese characters properly (in general, not just in ankidroid) without rooting the phone?

jettyke wrote:

There still isn't any rikaichan etc for android right...
Anything more convenient than a dictionary app and a clipboard copier for looking up words? :p

My phone is too crappy to actually think about reading anything on it but as soon as I get my hands on some decent Android tablet I'll probably write a Yomichan-like application to do exactly that. I don't know if its possible to integrate an app with OS so much that Rikaichan clone would be possible, but a dedicated reader for Japanese shouldn't be that hard.

Hell if guys from Ankidroid would be interested it could even enable tablet Yomichan to "communicate" with your Ankidroid and check for new cards/add new ones.

Update: Just searched for something that would offer such functionality and nothing came up. Strange since it should be relatively easy to develop, easy to monetize (unobtrusive ads on the bottom or top) and useful.

I did find Rikai for Android but considering how popular it is I expect major problems and usability issues.

Last edited by thurd (2011 December 05, 11:04 am)

It's not Japanese-related, but I've started using AirDroid recently.  It's a free app that lets you control your phone via your computer over a wireless network.  Quite handy for files management and replying to texts if you're on your computer.

ta12121 wrote:

einahpets wrote:

Another question: is there any way to get an android to display Japanese characters properly (in general, not just in ankidroid) without rooting the phone?

Hope this helps:
http://www.chayx.net/2011/04/android-ph … pport.html

Thanks for the link!  I installed the LocaleSwitch app and it's pretty cool!  But I'm still seeing Chinese style characters..is there another step after installing the app?  Sorry if I'm missing something obvious.  I haven't had my smartphone that long.

Edit: Just wanted to edit to clarify that I did click on the Japanese flag to choose Japan as the locale, but I didn't see anything further to do.

Last edited by einahpets (2011 December 05, 1:45 pm)

einahpets wrote:

Another question: is there any way to get an android to display Japanese characters properly (in general, not just in ankidroid) without rooting the phone?

Yes.

Perhaps I should have just rooted the phone in the beginning, but what I did was wait patiently for Mr Bottobouche to finally include a japanese font in his (free) Font for Galaxy SP program.

Previously I had used morelocale2 to change (some of) the phone menus to Japanese, but that did not actually install a correct japanese font into the phone's system. The above program does.

You have to follow his instructions
-first download the program
-open it and choose a font. I chose the first of the 3 listed under Japanese.
- click on it to download it
- run the downloaded install program (.apk)
- go to your phones settings, display settings, font style, and then switch to the new font.
-delete the Font for Galaxy SP program, if you want.
I'm not sure if you have to restart the phone.

I went back to a web page with an incorrect character eg  character  = 1899 = 'mistake' in the RTK website on the study section and it still didn't look right, so I switched the phone to Japanese with Morelocale2 and later back to English. This step probably was not necessary. I was just looking at something cached/not refreshed or whatever.  After that  I tried opening the page in a different browser program and also pasting into Aedict and the character looked correct.  I mention  the Morelocale2 step, just in case.

The writer of the program said initially that it was just for Samsung Galaxy devices, later for a 'phone that has flipfont function', not just Galaxy ones.
It works well for me on Samsung Galaxy tab, so far.  I've used his other fonts previously and also not noticed any problems. Check the reviews though. A few people seem to have had problems.

Last edited by rachels (2011 December 14, 2:18 am)

I got a Samsung Nexus S phone recently. It supports Japanese, so I can swith it easily. Does anyone know any good apps for the IME? Or any good learning Jp apps? Any methods on how to get JPN apps? Thanks in advance!

Further to installing a proper Japanese system font on my phone - see above - there seems to me, to be a problem with the DroidSans Japanese font offered by the above mentioned program. The RTK characters for recreation, mistake, skeleton, slippery all seem to be wrong (Chinese). However the first listed font displays these characters correctly. Pity, because the DroidSans Japanese font looks nicer.  I can't remember what other characters to test with.

Last edited by rachels (2011 December 15, 7:20 pm)

Hooray!　Simeji has gradually become less and less reliable on my phone

Bump.

Aedict. Beach buggy. Fruit ninja.