I have been experiencing crazy switches in my fonts displayed in the browser, in applications, etc. In particular, stuff written in Japanese was displayed with Chinese characters instead of Japanese. The differences are subtle,...
Only very rarely one’s opinion and attitude towards politics can be changed by reading a book. While being interested in current politics in Japan, this book changed my view onto it by providing the...
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress to the WordPress servers. This is only a minor release with very few fixes In particular, I fixed some misbehavior of the “load categories” button, and...
(This is a repost with permission from Cikitsā, Dominik Wujastyk’s blog with a few additions.) There’s been a long-standing issue about using the Gnu-Freefont fonts with XeLaTeX. The fonts are “Free Serif”, “Free Sans”...
Some days ago I found a free evening to watch this movie, Young & Beautiful (IMDB, Wiki). Strange enough, the movie is titled 17歳 in Japan – seems the addiction of some parts of...
After the bit , we continue this tutorial on writing Japanese in LaTeX today with a bit more hands-on practice, namely writing simple hello-world-style documents for different engines/packages. Today’s part will also include a...
Stop doing what you are doing! Stop it, NOW! Here it is, I have never, absolutely never seen something as similar to what I am thinking before. The whole point summed up into one sentence:
Back in May I on how to set up a usb stick with Debian/jessie installer, System Reschue CD and Tails. Since then several new versions of Tails and SystemRescueCD have been released, and the...
After the very brief introduction to Japanese typesetting and the available options in the , let us now dive into some technical explanations concerning character sets and encodings. In this blog post we will...