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A comment on Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016). Parent comment

Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by craftyguy on Saturday November 11, 2017 @07:07PM (#15678921)
In my browser, those are just 4 identical empty squares. I guess I'm a beginner since I can't distinguish between them!
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Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by ageofwant on Saturday November 11, 2017 @07:29PM (#15678992)
Installing the free hanazono fonts should sort you out

For arch:

    pacman -S ttf-hanazono
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Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by escherplex on Saturday November 11, 2017 @09:07PM (#15679312)
Interesting. Installed hanazono font HanaMinPlus.ttf in Firefox as J-default and even in this comment section the distinction between katakana 'n' and 'so' is quite clear whereas using MS Gothic it's somewhat ambiguous. Even more so when the two fonts are juxtaposed in LibreOffice.
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Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by fasdgafa on Sunday November 12, 2017 @02:10AM (#15680025)
You might want to look at some Kyokasho-tai typefaces; they should be pretty close to how we are taught to write.
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Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by craftyguy on Sunday November 12, 2017 @12:55AM (#15679875)
awesome, thank you for actually being helpful rather than just downvoting and moving on!
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