On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 11:00:24AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > Han unification produces it's own issues here which can best be resolved > by having fonts specify their target languages. I suspect the best plan > may well be to use Unicode coverage for language inclusion and then > exclude certain Han languages based on the codePageRange bits.
I have been wondering: would OpenType technology be able to help solve this issue, since OpenType allows multiple glyphs (for different target language) for each character? What I am envisioning is that in the future, the open source community will eventually (say, 5 to 10 years from now?) produce a full CJK OpenType font (likely a Ming/Song/Mincho/Batang style font), containing multiple glyphs for the characters that have different styles in zh-CN, zh-TW, ja, ko. This way, as long as your new font mechanism can correctly specify the target language, the correct glyph will be displayed for that language. Would this be an "ultimate" solution? :-) I wonder if such a font already exists in the commercial/proprietary world now... :-) Of course, your new font mechanism will still need to support the many legacy TrueType fonts, just as what we are discussing now. But yes, I would like to ask if your font mechanism will be able to support CJK OpenType fonts as described. :-) Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling ThizLinux Laboratory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.thizlinux.com/ Debian Chinese Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
