On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:06:46PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 13 o'clock on Jul 10, Anthony Fok wrote: > > > 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? > > Not any better than the OS/2 codePageRange bits that we already have; all > this would do is permit the application to use one font instead of several > different fonts. That's not particularily interesting as we're unlikely > to ever see good fonts that include glyphs for all of the worlds languages.
That's true. I am dreaming that one such font will eventually be created by the open source / free software community, but yeah, it is still a dream now, and probably only one or at most two fonts will result from this future project. Perhaps it could begin by merging the existing Kochi Mincho, Baekmuk Batang, AR PL Mingti2L Big5 and AR PL Sungti2L GB fonts, keeping the variant glyphs separate, fill in the missing pieces, and adjust the size and positions etc. to make it look like one uniform font instead of a "ransom-note" font. :-) > And, if the "language" you mention doesn't include some locality, then it > couldn't even distinguish between Ming and Sung forms. The OpenType specification tags do distinguish the old and new forms, called ZHS and ZHT (or something like that), as well as other localities (Japan, Korea, etc. etc.) Ah, found it: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/ opentype/appendices/ttoreg.html http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/ttoreg.htm Script: CJK Ideographic; Script tag: "hani" Language System: Chinese Simplified; Language System Tag: ZHS Chinese Traditional; ZHT Japanese; JAN Korean; KOR Is OpenType the best technology for such a future project, to combine existing works from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean community to create a good Unicode CJK font good for all to use? :-) (I hope OpenType is indeed "open" and not encumbered by patents or whatnot. :-) Cheers, 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
