Wait hold on I just realized.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

…Also waaaa why did the character rendering change so much when I copied from Pleco to Tusky. Who gave eight a hat

[trochee@dair-community.social]

@mcc eight people enter(ed)

[r@glauca.space]

@mcc very clunky and visibly a gimmick, but it _can_ be sensibly interpreted

[mdreid@mastodon.social]

@mcc Kind of reminds me of Roppongi: 六本木

[mcc@mastodon.social]

In Pleco they look like this. I don't know if this is a different but regular hanzi font or if the CJK unification is messing me up somehow

EDIT: I currently think Tusky is showing me Japanese character variants https://social.mildlyfunctional.gay/@artemist/116146010272716935

[juv3nal@phire.place]

@mcc reminds me of those super long tonal language tonguetwister examples where it's a sentence where if you print out the phonemicization absent the tonal marks it looks like the same thing a billionty times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-syllable_article

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@mcc
That 8 with a side stroke is regular japanese. It *seems* it's without the stroke in mandarin but of course I get the japanese version when rendered as unicode.

Edit: also, in casual handwriting you'd usually skip the side stroke in japanese as well.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

This is what Tusky looks like.

[synec@messydesk.social]

@mcc eight people... fighting over a wishbone?

[rperezrosario@mastodon.social]

@mcc Maybe it's too cold where they're from, and they need to wear hats.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

WAIT WTF this is an actual Chinese IME and it seems to be showing me Japanese characters. Ok I think Lenovo is fucking with me, one minute

[rcombs@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc damn you got han unified

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@mcc HUH

[arjache@toot.cat]

@mcc han unification strikes again

[dcbaok@fosstodon.org]

@mcc are you on ubuntu still?

https://www.thomasvanderberg.nl/blog/fix-cjk-font-order-linux/

[roastbeefhashtag@mastodon.social]

@mcc I love Tusky but they gotta fix the quote posting

[phil_tanner@mastodon.philtanner.com]

@mcc hmm. My Tusky also looks like this?

[nosword@localization.cafe]

@jannem @mcc Yep, on the Joyo Kanji list (probably the closest thing Japan has to an "official reference implementation" for common kanji), the "main entry" has the sidestroke, but elsewhere in the document this is explicitly identified as a "fude-osae" (a kind of initial or closing "flourish of the brush", cp. serif) that can be left out (or lengthened!). Elementary school students are taught to write the version without.

https://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Okay I now believe the problem is neither Tusky nor Lenovo but rather that Android is not a serious product and never has been. It seems Android may outright refuse to show scripts unless you've whitelisted the language. Problem: I think this menu is asking me which version of Chinese I want but the menu is in Chinese. I want to look at Chinese text so I can learn Chinese. I don't know it yet. I feel like I'm playing an adventure game.

* I may explore a PR later anyway.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Actually I'm pretty sure 简 already means simplified, so I selected simplified at the top level, and this second menu is asking… I don't know. Locale? TTS dialect?!