Musescore shows wrong glyphs in lyrics: Japanese kanji instead of Chinese han

• Nov 27, 2024 - 21:02

I'm working on a score with Chinese lyrics, but the characters get displayed as Japanese kanji (they displayed correctly on musescore.com AFAIK). Basically the reverse problem that what's described in this blog post: https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

I noticed that last year a UI issue where the Japanese UI appeared with Chinese glyphs was being discussed (https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/17740). Could it be that they just defaulted all glyphs to appear as Japanese Kanji and as a result Chinese han characters get kanjified in the lyrics? Or has it something to do with my OS configuration?

Character as displayed on musescore.com: charondotcom.PNG

Character as displayed on MuseScore Studio: charonstudio.PNG

Character glyphs as they appear in English language Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84):
charhan.PNG
charkanji.PNG

Disclaimer: I'm not fluent in Chinese nor Japanese and can't read them, my UI is in English.

OS: Windows 10 Version 2009 or later, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.3-242971445, revision: eb6b367

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• Dec 6, 2024 - 15:27

I'm answering my own question:

The glyph family displayed depends mainly on the font chosen, so I chose a font that supported Chinese and it displayed correctly.

Although I wouldn't know what to do with a "universal" font, i.e. one that supports all languages included in the Unicode Han Unification. Oh well, this workaround will have to do for now

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