Re: VL Gothic odd characters

[Masahiro Sekiguchi]

> > But in the vl-gothic that my Fedora 13 has, it looks different: the
> > diagonal stroke in the right half of the character goes through the
> > vertical bar, when it should only go to the right of the bar.
> > How does it look in your vl-gothic font?
> Aah, I see what you mean. In both characters the last stroke is placed
> unusually. I'm not sure if it's a bug or feature though, the IPA fonts
> have it also this way (both Gothic and Mincho style). Might be worth
> asking some actual Japanese whether it's wrong or acceptable
> stylisation.

It's a design thing.  Both shapes are perfectly fine.

As long as the rasterized image reflects the designer's intention, it
is not a bug.

--- 
Masahiro Sekiguchi

VL Gothic odd characters

[Mark Alford]

All the native speakers of Japanese that I have consulted tell me that
these kanji look odd, definitely non-standard. They have never seen
"soto" or "uchi/KA" written this way in handwriting, and hardly ever in
books.

My teacher told me that if any student wrote these kanji in the
VL-Gothic way, they would be corrected. 
She also said that the way these characters appear in VL-Gothic (and
other computer fonts) looks like the versions in the old "Kouki Jiten"
Kanji dictionary, compiled in China in 1716.

Does anyone know of a computer kanji font that uses the standard form of
these characters, the form that is used in printing books and is taught
to students in Japan?

VL Gothic odd characters

[Akira TAGOH]

Better ask upstream rather than continuing the discussion here, if those are expected design or not.
no one knows that except one who actually design and implement.

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| 
| All the native speakers of Japanese that I have consulted tell me
| that
| these kanji look odd, definitely non-standard. They have never seen
| "soto" or "uchi/KA" written this way in handwriting, and hardly ever
| in
| books.
| 
| My teacher told me that if any student wrote these kanji in the
| VL-Gothic way, they would be corrected.
| She also said that the way these characters appear in VL-Gothic (and
| other computer fonts) looks like the versions in the old "Kouki
| Jiten"
| Kanji dictionary, compiled in China in 1716.
| 
| Does anyone know of a computer kanji font that uses the standard form
| of
| these characters, the form that is used in printing books and is
| taught
| to students in Japan?
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
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