Hiragana and katakana at least make sense - the sounds - it is quite phonetic (as long as you understand the Japanese phonetic rules) - but Kanji are those symbols that are not phonetic - and one single Kanji can have several prounounciations and dozens of meanings. Talk about "old fashioned" ! ! !Ĭlick to expand.When I taught in Japan, I ran into this problem, It is wild typing Kanji in Japanese. Personally, I just use a bottle of whiteout and a good finepoint pen and fix it before I make copies. There are also issues with several of the uppercase letters (the ones that connect midline) but I didn't even go into that one - too dragged out. They have issues with iinserting punctuation and with spacing (because the same letter with different connectors takes up differing amounts of space, unlike printed letters. I know there are programs out there that can do it, but they have draw backs, too. Then the user has to manually select which type to use (and if you don't already have it written in cursive, it doens't always occur to you that it is an issue until you print it.) It would be incredibly frustrating to try to type this way. So to make it work, they have to have an alternative print of every lowercase letter, a-z, that starts at the midline rather than the baseline. You see, the issue isn't just the 4 letters - it is the way those 4 letters connect at the midline to the next letter instead of like the rest at the base line. Click to expand.I don't know about the mac, but I know it is a problem they've been working on for years without much resolution for regular fonts.
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