Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
>
> > I'd say that even these fonts should be complete unifonts that allow
> > also Chinese and Korean text to be displayed, even if not with the
> > perfect glyphs.
>
> (I am afraid whether I understand your sentence...) Yes, we have
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-{ja,ko}-*-iso10646-1. If someone developed
> Chinese version, XFree86 should include it.
I'd like to point out that Debian distributes a DFSG-compliant 24x24
bitmap font, xfonts-cmex-big5p, which contains the 20,902 Han
characters of Unicode 2.1, in a zh_TW style. It is in Big5+ encoding
(a superset of Big5), but could be remapped to ISO 10646-1.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xfonts-cmex-big5p.html
It has already been remapped unofficially to create a GBK--and by
extension GB2312--font for zh_CN users, although it does not conform
to zh_CN style. (I don't know what zh_CN users feel about that.)
I don't know if its dimensions (24x24) are a problem, but having an
internally-consistent style is certainly preferable to patching
different fonts together a la frankenstein or ransom notes. Its also
nicer than rendering TrueType fonts (a poor technique for small sizes),
and doesn't have the legal complications of yanking the embedded bitmaps
from (certain) TrueType fonts, either.
Incidently, I would question just how important all this pickyness over
glyphs is, since in such small bitmap sizes (18x18 and 16x16 also
exist),
there is inevitable damage to the integrity of the appearance of the
glyphs of some Han characters, especially the complex ones with many
strokes. Someone else can probably provide specific examples.
Thomas Chan
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