@cybette but you ought to turn challenge with handwriting art into opportunity, e.g. making first in computer world handwriting-alike font... I mean font which doesn't have 100% fixed forms of glyphs, rather changing based on context (worm and wet palms of typer, tempo of typing, etc)
@silpol sounds like an interesting challenge, although the complexity for chinese will be exponentially higher than most languages with a fixed and finite set of alphabet. plus i never really liked the look of those "handwriting" fonts, although it could be because they are poorly done
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Umm.. Wha? :)
1 year, 10 months ago by R200
lol don't bother translating it. just some lyrics from a song i like. was testing if jaiku supported chinese characters coz pownce sure doesn't.
1 year, 10 months ago by cybette
Jaiku support utf8, that is enough
1 year, 10 months ago by silpol
Jaiku app sure doesn't..
1 year, 10 months ago by R200
Wow, this post's email notification really looks weird on the N800's email client.. Some kind of alien languge! takes screenshot
1 year, 10 months ago by R200
That looks cool on my Jaiku app also takes screenshot
1 year, 10 months ago by whatleydude
@R200 - Mine does bro..
1 year, 10 months ago by whatleydude
@kk i have a chinese word editor. i use a method called "pinyin" to enter the characters based on the sounds, so i don't need a chinese keyboard
1 year, 10 months ago by cybette
hmm the characters show up on mobile app in my E62 but not N95
1 year, 10 months ago by cybette
@dude yours what does what?
1 year, 10 months ago by R200
My Jaiku app supports those characters..
1 year, 10 months ago by whatleydude
But then again - i'm running an APAC product code atm. That might explain it!
1 year, 10 months ago by whatleydude
Oh, ok.. Eseries?
1 year, 10 months ago by R200
Nokia N95 cough black cough
1 year, 10 months ago by whatleydude
yeah i think the regional variant makes a difference. my e62 is also APAC variant
1 year, 10 months ago by cybette
Only changed it the other day.. Wanted the new N95 firmware.. That keypress bug was driving me crazy!
1 year, 10 months ago by whatleydude
I guess the Scandinavian variant isn't Asian enough then. :)
1 year, 10 months ago by R200
Hmmmm... Pinyin... Russians call it translit, tho we have rather almost direct mapping...
1 year, 10 months ago by silpol
On firefox it looks nice. Maybe one day I would give a try for Chinese just for sake of art of drawing "alphabet" :)
1 year, 10 months ago by silpol
yeah chinese characters can be such an art form, but unfortunately my handwriting sucks so i'd better stick to typing them out
1 year, 10 months ago by cybette
@cybette but you ought to turn challenge with handwriting art into opportunity, e.g. making first in computer world handwriting-alike font... I mean font which doesn't have 100% fixed forms of glyphs, rather changing based on context (worm and wet palms of typer, tempo of typing, etc)
1 year, 10 months ago by silpol
@silpol sounds like an interesting challenge, although the complexity for chinese will be exponentially higher than most languages with a fixed and finite set of alphabet. plus i never really liked the look of those "handwriting" fonts, although it could be because they are poorly done
1 year, 10 months ago by cybette
@cybette you ought to make engine not fonts, and take instant gratification from students typing merely their handwritten letters to grandma ;)
1 year, 10 months ago by silpol