Comments on: How to verify that you use the right Chinese font

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 05:32:51 +0000

In reply to Eric M. Yes, I mean word processor; thanks for pointing this out!

By: Eric M

Eric M — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 01:32:20 +0000

I am pretty sure you mean “word processor”, like Microsoft Word, Open Office, Libre Office, Google Docs, etc. A text editor, like Notepad, TextEdit, vim, gEdit, only displays text (which usually is garbage if the file is binary).

As a programmer, it’s confusing to imagine opening a binary file (which is what a .png is) in a text editor. To the lay person though, I can see how they’d mix up the terminology.

Actually, just noticed that Sublime Text (a text editor) added a plugin to view images, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:04:29 +0000

In reply to XYZ. On most normal computers, you can just drag the image from the article into an open text document. You could also just save the picture locally and then open it from within your text editor. I think all regular text editors should be able to open .png files!

By: James

James — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:09:56 +0000

In reply to XYZ. My editor is vim btw. I downloaded the image but it was a regular png that shows binary in vim..

By: XYZ

XYZ — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:05:01 +0000

Sorry I may sound stupid but how does on

> 1 Copy one of the two pictures below.
> 2 Paste into your text editor

By: X

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:55:58 +0000

Great article, thanks. The first image is a bit confusing though. I opened on mobile and immediately set out to figure the name of the font I was using before realizing that its only an image

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:25:21 +0000

In reply to Antonina. Yeah, this is one of the most annoying problems when starting to learn Chinese since every single stroke (especially stroke length) could be significant, although most are not. I think there's no way to really solve this problem except trying to stick to one reference font whenever you can (for flashcards, for instance).

By: Antonina

Antonina — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 05:32:15 +0000

Olle, thank you for a detailed explanation, as always 😉 few characters you mentioned really confused me, I’m studying now in Taiwan and these differences are very visible. It’s hard especially, because some characters of different meaning differ less than the variants of the same character! So I become suspicious each time I find such a difference, haha

Example:

已 yi3 vs 己 ji3 —> different characters
黄 huang2 黃 huang2 —> same character