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Originally Posted by maynard
I did get garbage characters. It's definitely a font acquisition problem. I expect PDFs with embedded Chinese fonts would work fine. But still, I'd like the nice folks at Entourage to add Chinese language support. It is important to me.
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I'm surprised a Chinese font isn't in the firmware. The 1st Gen eDGe, that clunky prototype, was displaying Chinese in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV2MCBlcowg
I suppose their own English firmware may have overwritten the Chinese. Or it's still in there and just needs some trick to bring it out? I'll be interested in what enTourage has to say.
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Originally Posted by maynard
What does that kana character mean? I see it all the time. BTW: am finishing a wonderful Japanese History class at Harvard (A-14). Very intensive, lots of reading. But - wow - from Heian to the modern period. Worth every penny for the tuition.
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Well, the meaning of the の ("no") character depends on the context as so very much of Japanese does. In that kind of placement it's sort of a possessive. It connects two things, in this case "book" and "worm" (insect/bug). Another example: 帝国の逆襲, which has "empire" "no" "counterattack".
The Empire Strikes Back. Another connector kind of character you'll see a lot is と ("to", sounds like "toe") ... but this isn't a language lesson.
I'm just a self-taught beginner in Japanese. One of my main reasons for getting the eDGe is to use it as a language study aid. With the right Android apps along with all the resources of the web on the LCD side, and with the ability to copy/paste from and to (as annotations) the Japanese source document on the e-ink side, the eDGe just may be the most powerful language-learning tool ever made. The possibilities are incredible.
Good luck on that font.