himselfv / wakan

Japanese and Chinese learning tool with dictionary
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have both Hepburn and Kunrei preselected as default. #270

Closed himselfv closed 9 years ago

himselfv commented 9 years ago

Original report by Anonymous.

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 270

The reason why both should be preselected (with romanization shown in Kana and not Roma-ji)
is the following:

Many people are more acquainted with hepburn, in fact Kunrei is very counterintuitive
for pretty much all Germanic language speakers and maybe even Romance language ones.

I came across it, when I couldn't filter Kanji by the on-yomi "jun" since only kunrei
was preselected.

Having both selected, as far as I can tell does not lead to many confusions, because
both are distinct enough, but it helps in effective typing.

歯骨 [しこつ] {anat} dentary bone, dentary <n> ——edict2 Would be a good example where you
could find it by typing in various ways: "sikotu" "shikotsu" or even saving time with
"shikotu" for "hepburn natives".

The phonetic should be shown in Kana (I forget if this is pre-selected), because it
kind of makes more sense for a typical student to first study Japanese Hiragana, before
proceeding with anything else, including learning first words.

Thx for considering. Keep up the great work!

Reported by supermarkus420 on 2014-12-19 12:34:33

himselfv commented 9 years ago
Alright. r#7fdb629261e3 should do it. Let's see if the two systems clash. I set Kunrei
to be first for now because it's more formal. 

There's one drawback though, the multiselection mode was meant as advanced one because
I assumed people would get confused with all the checkboxes and reordering. To enable
it you had to explicitly ask for it, but now it's enabled by default (as it is when
more than one system is selected).

Yep, phonetics are in kana by default.

Reported by himselfv on 2015-02-12 17:21:25

himselfv commented 9 years ago

Reported by himselfv on 2015-02-12 17:31:10