Comments on: The Sorry State Of Japanese On The Internet http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/04/the-sorry-state-of-japanese-on-the-internet/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 12:20:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Silgrond http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/04/the-sorry-state-of-japanese-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-55002 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:50:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17897#comment-55002 I’m really late, but I’ve always hated the font rendering on Windows. I’ve found this app, which basically changes the Cleartype rendering to mac-like. You can even change it to be registry-based, so everything will be smooo~th. (There are “themes” too) http://code.google.com/p/mactype/

]]> By: Johannes Löthberg http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/04/the-sorry-state-of-japanese-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-47705 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:01:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17897#comment-47705 “Half-width kana were used in the early days of Japanese computing, to
allow Japanese characters to be displayed on the same grid as monospaced fonts of Latin characters”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-width_kana

]]> By: AnadyLi http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/04/the-sorry-state-of-japanese-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-46670 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:35:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17897#comment-46670 I’m thirteen, Chinese, and I have NEVER noticed this.

]]> By: Jonadab http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/04/the-sorry-state-of-japanese-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-45883 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:01:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17897#comment-45883 The ruby element wouldn’t be needed in HTML, and every single other application and file format ever wouldn’t also need to make special provisions for ruby text, if only Unicode had included combining furigana characters (and pinyin), similar to how it includes combining diacritics. Unlike Han Unification (which cut the total number of Unicode codepoints in half or better and is probably the only reason there’s any such thing as a complete Unicode font), the failure to support furigana saved, what, fifty characters? Maybe closer to eighty if you don’t want to nest combinations (e.g., to add combining-furigana-dakuten onto a combining-furigana-fu when you need a bu pronunciation). That would’ve been totally manageable, and it would make dealing with Japanese text *majorly* easier.

]]> By: Takashiro http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/04/the-sorry-state-of-japanese-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-41664 Tue, 08 May 2012 21:29:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17897#comment-41664 That would defeat the purpose of the web, we need to work within the standards that we have and push the browser developers to continue improving support for certain features. I mostly use Chrome, but Tofugu, and other sites work best with Safari, as Apple’s had the benefit of creating multi-lingual OSes.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/04/the-sorry-state-of-japanese-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-41495 Sun, 06 May 2012 03:34:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17897#comment-41495 Thanks for explaining the Unicode. I remember looking up the stroke order for the kanji in the picture and being confused because the drawing looked nothing like the text…

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