Did my reviews on windows instead of mac and came across this, is this normal? I know these are the simplified Chinese versions of these characters, but are they supposed to appear that way in Japanese?
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They are definitely not supposed to look that way, and I shouldnât think itâs defaulting to Chinese due to language settings since I never had a problem on the main site (just with defaulting to Chinese variants with some kanji on the forums) before adding Japanese as a (preferred? default?) language. Iâm on Windows as well
I just checked and they look normal for me rn:
Very odd
(Update: Nope, I was wrong. Didnât think about it not having the language at all vvv)
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Does that machine also show the characters wrongly on other web pages ? My guess is that machine has no Japanese font at all and so itâs falling back to the Chinese forms as better than just showing little âno character availableâ boxes. If so, then just installing the Japanese language support (should be somewhere under the settings menu) should fix it.
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Agreed, this seems to be the most likely issue. If you follow these steps and still see a problem, please reach out to hello@wanikani.com so we can take a closer look!
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I was going to suggest that this was impossible with unicode as each character should have its own codepoint. However it would appear that the Unicode consortium decided to take some sort of philosophical stance on the issue as it was all âtechnically the same scriptâ (âHanâ in their words) they decided to overload the codepoints with traditional and simplified Chinese, along with Kanji and left it for the font designers to sort out:
So yeah, looks like a font issue. Above link suggests some alternative fonts (presumably free)
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Tofugu used to have an article on the subject too, but I canât seem to find it now. Whether theyâve removed it or Iâm just using the wrong search terms, I have no idea.
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Yeah, this is âHan Unificationâ â personally I think it was a bad idea, but at the time as well as the principle I believe they also had the practical aim of keeping the whole of Unicode a 16-bit character set (a limit theyâve since had to break anyway).
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Yeah, Han Solo was a much better character before they changed his name.
It would have taken them about 5 minutes of research to realize that âone encoding to rule them allâ wasnât going to fit into 16 bits.
Now theyâve padded it and are encoding very narrow interest things like Linear A and Rongorongo and weâre stuck messing about with installed fonts and hoping some sort of OTF alternate glyphs chicanery doesnât bite us in the arse, which happens often enough just typesetting English when it insists on using ligatures it doesnât actually have glyphs for.
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