Wait hold on I just realized.

[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?!

[ongion@mendeddrum.org]

@mcc this does not seem to be a Tusky issue for me? Pixel 7 Pro, fwiw.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@dcbaok if I've somehow got onto Ubuntu I'm more screwed than I thought

[r@glauca.space]

@mcc not sure about the context it'll be used in, but the choices are:

* Mainland China
* Macau (you'd never guess this without looking it up)
* Hong Kong
* Singapore

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Ongion I appear to have previously configured Japanese as an allowed language on this laptop (or it shipped that way?) and that's making it do weird things

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@r thank you very much.

[pjl@social.atwhim.com]

@mcc The second menu displays locations like Hong Kong and Singapore.

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@mcc
This is the problem with han unification; we're partway back to code pages and picking the right font to render a particular language.

Like telling Danes and Swedes that ä and æ is the same character and so we'll just make them the same in Unicode.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Update: I solved the problem, not by adding Chinese as an alternate language for my Android, but by deleting Japanese as an alternate language. Not sure when I did this or what I was trying to accomplish but I question Google's decision that informing it I may look at text in Japanese makes it conclude I DEFINITELY won't be looking at Chinese!

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Anyways I think the sentence was wrong to start with because it's missing 个s or something

[chateauerin@mastodon.social]

@mcc the witch who cursed you: this isn't what I anticipated at all

[ehashman@toot.cat]

@mcc the photo is exactly how the post looks on Tusky for me fwiw

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@mcc

From what I understand, the 个 is not optional and must be included except that it’s entirely optional and is dropped half the time or something.

[heliograph@mastodon.au]

@rk love this!!! no idea what this means (sorry to barg in the thread door) but will pinch this 个 and use for houses 😁 (or as fancy arrow)
@mcc

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Heliograph @rk The 个 is a friend that you give to a number so that it does not get lonely

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@ehashman I have found an absolutely BAFFLING intersection of Android features and I'd wonder if it's just this tablet is messed up but I found people on Stack Overflow having the same problem with the same fix

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@mcc @Heliograph @rk I prefer to think of it as the units people (and other things) come in. As in, “Going down to the bar to drink a couple of pints, and maybe bring back a ge or two.”

[heliograph@mastodon.au]

@jonathankoren o-0 a "G" or two? @mcc @rk

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@r @mcc i mostly remember macau as "the one that has 门 in it".

Android will render text from languages not in your list, that's why pleco shows the right forms. it just won't do so unless explicitly told to with an android.text.style.LocaleSpan, which most apps don't bother to do.

You can get the same problem in web browsers if it isn't told what language to use. I regularly see japanese forms in chinese subtitles because google isn't setting lang="zh-Hans" for their subtitles.