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Display issue for longer items (Chengyus etc.)

henning   August 8th, 2009 6:26p.m.

There is a new issue with longer items: The pinyin is cut off by the blue box with the characters. You basically have to enter those blindly.

nick   August 8th, 2009 8:17p.m.

Can you provide an example 成语 where this happens? I just fixed this for all known cases, but I guess not for some unknown cases. Also, which browser is it on?

Thanks!

henning   August 8th, 2009 8:32p.m.

I am using a PC in China with a Chinese Windows XP home and a Chinese Internet Explorer 7 or 8 (cannot really tell). The issue appears mostly with longer vocab items imported from CPod, e.g. 好了伤疤忘了疼

jww1066   August 9th, 2009 1:32a.m.

I'm not sure if this is related, but I added a custom phrase to my queue,

刀子嘴豆腐心 "knife mouth, tofu heart"

and when each character shows up the screen seems to jump; it appears to be scrolling the page up. By the end of the phrase you can no longer see the words. I am using Firefox 3.0.6 on Windows XP.

James

henning   August 9th, 2009 2:12a.m.

Maybe I just try again when I am back home next week :)

nick   August 9th, 2009 8:40a.m.

George has taken the netbook which has Firefox 3 and IE 7 to a conference, returning late tonight. I'll try to debug these when it returns. It's odd, though -- usually when something works on Firefox 3.5, it works on Firefox 3. It also seems to work on Chrome, Safari 4 for Windows, IE8, and Opera 10.

Perhaps it is more subtle bug with computer speed.

nick   August 9th, 2009 9:40a.m.

Hmm; is there any way either of you can figure out what font / font size is being used to display the pinyin of those phrases? Or perhaps you could email me a screenshot?

henning   August 9th, 2009 9:20p.m.

Actually, this morning the issue is gone. In case of long vocab the Hanzi-box now automatically jumps down a line below.

Either there has been a really cool quick-fix on your side or well, I don"t understand this strangely configured Chinese machine...

Anyway, I am happy now, so thanks!!

:)

nick   August 10th, 2009 8:25p.m.

I put in some fixes related to machines having non-default font sizes in a few key places. I'm guessing that was the problem for most, but please continue to let me know of more problems.

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