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Due to the visual complexity of its ideograms, Japan felt the need to use higher resolutions than those used in the West at the same time in order to display ka
by Tade0 6y ago
Due to the visual complexity of its ideograms, Japan felt the need to use higher resolutions than those used in the West at the same time in order to display kanji properly
It still amazes me how users of kanji/hànzì are able to pick up ideograms from images that contain too little information for OCR to do its job.
- Daub 6y agoNot an expert, but I would say that the reason is that Kanji is a silhouette-complex form, typical of pictogram written languages. The Western alphabet-form is certainly smaller in variance (which helps) but also simpler in its silhouette.
- amake 6y agoHere's a modern font that really stretches the limits of packing hanzi into a tiny number of pixels: https://3type.cn/fonts/dinkie_bitmap/index.html https://3type.cn/fonts/dinkie_bitmap/index.html
- fomine3 6y agoThis is how 9pt bitmap commercial fonts simplifies complex kanji. https://note.com/zoji_numa/n/n088f4edd773d https://note.com/zoji_numa/n/n088f4edd773d
- pavlov 6y agoSurrounding text context must help quite a lot? Aftr a11, yu are proba81y ble 2 raed htis sntecne, but a cpmuter wd strgggle.