Saturday 24 August 2013

kana kanji font フォント


I am searching diligently for a Japanese Unicode web font ( フォント ) with fine ( light or extra-light ) kana (hiragana, katakana and furigana) but strongly stroked kanji so that in a phrase with only few kanji, the effect will be one of the kanji characters standing out.

The alternative is to use extensive markup or to script based on the binary value of the characters.

What approach will I take for web languages which have string types or values, but no char type?







Sunday 18 August 2013

katakana and hiragana charts PNG


I have placed two Japanese kana chart images at aule-browser.com/nihongo :

aule-browser.com/nihongo/images/hiragana-rs-72pt-1280-960.png

and

aule-browser.com/nihongo/images/katakana-rs-72pt-1280-960.png

which were both created using an easy to edit script in the Curl web content language ( formerly MIT Curl before being marketted by Curl Corp and now maintained in Version 8 by SCSK of Tokyo.)

The font in this case is 72pt HanaMinA in navy blue on a cornsilk background.

The same basic charts in Meiryo font can be seen at

aule-browser.com/nihongo/images/hiragana-rs-72pt-1280-960-meiryo.png

and

aule-browser.com/nihongo/images/katakana-rs-72pt-1280-960-meiryo.png

The Curl macros used are simply table, row and cell as in

  {table 
         {row {cell A} {cell B} {cell C} ... }
         {row {cell J} {cell K} {cell L} ... }
         ...
  }

A few blank cells were used for alignment where no character exists in a given column and are merely

   {cell \ }

The slash + space gives us a space character rather like a non-breaking blank in HTML.



Monday 5 August 2013

Masaoka Shiki New Year haiku 1893-1902


The conversion of the Shiki haiku to UTF-8 is nearly complete with these :


Now to devise a flexible applet which a user can configure to suit their kanji learning needs using the Shiki haiku collections as a resource.