Re: [Padict-developer] anti-aliased fonts?

[Lars G. <lg...@da...>]

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adressed to the list, not to Benoit OR Lapo directly... ;)

| The elisa font is ok for Kana but for anything else than trivial kanji =
it
| just looks like a glob of black to me
| it may be readable for a Japanese but in case of complexe but common
kanjis
| like =E8=AD=B0 (gi in Kaigi meeting) =E6=A9=9F
| ki in hikouki airplane =E7=86=B1 netsu fever I doubt that anybody can r=
eally
| recognize the kanji without knowing what
| it may be ahead of time.

Well, you know, reading is mostly guessing, anyway. I think a trained
japenese reader can read and understand even words written in elisa with
complicated kanji. Additionally, the small result browser also supplies
the kana reading, so a good japanese reader should be able to remember
the kanji possible for the reading.

Of course this is very hard for non-natives like us, but we can still
use the 16x16 font in highres, or even switch to 32x32 on highres single
display now; I think that's good enough.

Anti-Alias is a good thing on simple characters that are drawn in high
resolution environments (Desktop PC), but the complicated kanji require
special treatment to be readable (dropping the *correct* strokes and
stuff) on low-resolution devices. And even with 320x320 pixel screens,
16x16 pixel for a single character in multi-result display must be
considered as low resolution...

Additionally if you compare the anti-alias Kana in Hiragana/Katakana
Screens (yes, those are anti-alias) with the Kana "N" in the same
screen, which is NOT anti-aliased, you notice that there is not much
difference between them.

But just go for anything you want to go for, it's a free world :)

cu,
~  Lars
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