bkbullock

To ameliorate this problem, I've moved the "Viewer" link to immediately underneath the "Home" on the left side menu on the latest version of the website.

I'm not sure why there are stroke order numbers on the alphabet/numerals. Looking at the history of the files,

https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg/commits/master/kanji/0004...

they weren't there originally, then there is a commit where they were added which says "Recover stroke numbers from SVG directory". But in the same commit the stroke orders for kana were also added, so it might have been just a side effect of something useful.

Another thing I don't really understand is why all the ASCII characters were copied into the "wide ascii" positions:

https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg/commits/master/kanji/0ff2...

The commit summary actually says "The ascii characters copied to the full width character positions." which I think was completely pointless. KanjiVG doesn't have the entire JIS character set, since that includes Greek and Russian letters, and various graphical symbols, as well as half-width katakana (narrow katakana), so there wasn't any clear reason to stuff these duplicates into there.

I might bring these two issues up on the mailing list at some point.

There has been a viewer there for a while, which is also the viewer linked from the EDRDG dictionary. See

https://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?1MKU8cc0

and click "KanjiVG Stroke Diagram".

The listing page was also restored a few days ago:

http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/listing.html

You can click on any character and you should get a page which shows the character

http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/viewer.html?kanji=%E8%B3%80

and also can display its groups by clicking the "Show the component groups", and the variant forms if they exist, such as

http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/viewer.html?file=08cc0-Kaisho.svg

and also gives a link to github.com

https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg/blob/master/kanji/08cc0.s...

where the image is also displayed. There is also a new animation feature which was added a couple of weeks ago, and a "Random" button where you can get a random kanji.

There's also a link to Wiktionary on each viewer page

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B3%80

which was added mostly as a quick way to view the IDS information for the character.

That seems to have been uploaded on February 11 2023. I remember kanjicafe.com, which used to have a giant picture of Jim Rose's face for some reason. The site seems to have gone now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040925183635/http://kanjicafe....

Please feel free to add your project to the list at http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/projects.html if you like. You can either announce it to the mailing list or just add a pull request at https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg.github.com/blob/master/pr...

The publication of the kanji stroke order font at the nihilist.org.uk site actually predated the publication of the KanjiVG data. The person who made the Kanji stroke order font had access to the KanjiVG data before it was generally published. However, the link to that web site was only added to the list of projects a few months ago.

https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg.github.com/commit/3b72197...

There isn't actually any colour coding in the SVG files. Various viewers add that on, but the SVG files themselves are black and white.

The stroke order is the accepted one for the most part, but it would be going to far to say that it is definitely correct.

https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A...

There are various disputed stroke orders and the radicals are also sometimes disputed. KanjiVG also contains a large number of variant stroke orders which are identified using suffixes.

http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/variants.html

The above web site offers animated stroke orders, see the "animate" button on

https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/viewer.html

Credit for the project is at the bottom of the page.