Kozuka Mincho kanji font

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I am finding that I like the Kozuka Mincho Pro M font : 

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One nice thing is that on Windows it does not flip the backslash glyph, i.e., \ char, to the Yen glyph ! It has no effect on anything other than the page presentation ( your character is there, behaving as it should otherwise) but it is such a vexation !

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RAIMBAULT ROUILLE et Les 500 kanji (ellipses)

Raimbault and Rouillé in their book Les 500 kanji saw fit to throw in compounds made with kanji which are not found in any of the 3 indices to that book.  Vexing. In one case the font used makes a kanji difficult to make out (for its high price, the printer and typesetter have let down the user.)

Rather than rail against them, I have started some web pages for those who buy the book and run into these not infrequent vexations and a few errors that seem inexcusable for a mere 500 entries for 50$ ( with 1500 often vexing compounds chosen, it seems, on a whim.)

Is that ellipses or elisions ?

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font preferences

Work on the dictionary must stop in order to add Preferences so that users can set a font size preference.

A Japanese font can be problematic at, say 20pt, but very clear at 24pt depending on such things as TrueType settings.

I am getting good results using the free HanaMinA font from the Hanazono Project.

Preferences will be based on CSPD (client-side persistent data) - but I may offer browser cookies as an option ... ah, feature-creep, where would we get to without you ?

jōyō kanji 鐘

鐘

 
鐘, 9418, 1414, bell, gong, chimes ( UCS or Unicode hex value; jōyō index used in our app's )

鐘 in Bashō's haiku ( the page to which this will link requires the MIT Curl Surge® RTE browser add-on from curl.com )

鐘 at wiktionary.org

If you have the lovely HanaMinA font you can go here.

The free font is available at sourceforge.net