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Traditional vs. Simplified

whiteto2   March 10th, 2009 8:46p.m.

With the new version, I can't seem to find any indication if the character I'm working on is simplified or traditional (I've got my setting set to Both) until I make the first wrong stroke. Is this a known issue?

nick   March 10th, 2009 10:15p.m.

A lot of people have said the same thing, so we need to make a way to introduce this. The background for the characters in the prompt is light blue if it's unambiguous (either there's no difference between traditional and simplified or you're just studying one), goldenrod for simplified, and pink-red for traditional.

I think it's a good system, but it's totally unclear at first. We want to have a sort of help-bubble tutorial activate the first time you see it, because we figure it's easy to remember once you know what it means the first time. But we don't have that system yet.

whiteto2   March 11th, 2009 11:53a.m.

Got it now. Easy to use once you know what to look for. Thanks.

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