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This might be a problem arising because of Han unification. In Japanese, the character is commonly written with a vertical final stroke (at least in print), wh
by fraculus 8y ago
This might be a problem arising because of Han unification.
In Japanese, the character is commonly written with a vertical final stroke (at least in print), whereas in Chinese it's a diagonally down and to the right. However, they are encoded as the same in Unicode. What gets displayed depends on the font choice, possibly aided by somewhat hacky language hints.
This particular character is the second example in the list of "Examples of language-dependent glyphs" in the Wikipedia article [1].
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_language-dependent_glyphs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_...
- SECProto 8y agoThank you. This seems like a very probable explanation.
- glandium 8y agoFWIW, the version where the lower part is like マ is also used in Japanese. Different calligraphic styles can have big visual differences.
- needle0 8y agoMuch like how the lowercase a or g can have multiple appearances in the latin alphabet.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoSpeaking of this, my computer just switched from displaying Chinese by default to displaying Japanese. I was able to configure Firefox back to Chinese, but couldn't figure out how to set Windows 10 back. It only really affects me if I happen to be typing Chinese in Notepad, but still, it's annoying. Do you know how?