Re: [Devel] Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

[Vasilis Vasaitis]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 07:35:53PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> 
> Let's also clarify a few things here.
> Do you speak about CJK fonts, or about Latin+Greek+Cyrillic fonts, right?
> There are some rather good fonts available *for free* for Latin+Greek+Cyrillic 

  Not to my experience. There seem to be a lot of Latin+Cyrillic fonts
around, and I would guess that at least some of them have quite good
quality, but for Greek fonts this is not the case. OTOH, there is a
serious shortage of Greek fonts that are (a) indisputably free, and
(b) of adequate quality so as not to pop my eyeballs off their
sockets. No, come to think of it, there is even a shortage of Greek
fonts that only satisfy the (a) condition.

> alphabet. And I am working on set of my own fonts (Latin+Cyrillic, Greek can 
> follow, as it's not extremly difficult to add if you have already Cyrillic 
> glyphs)

  Well, it's not that easy either. Capital letters are almost ready if
you have capital Latin & Cyrillic ones, but a lot of the small letters
are *very* different from anything else in the other scripts.

  Anyway, I don't intend to criticise anyone, just wanted to clarify
some things...

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Re: [Devel] Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - Indian

[Markus Kuhn]

Frank T. Pohlmann wrote on 2002-10-06 16:39 UTC:
> The Indian Ministry of Information Technology is doing
> what it can to coordinate the development and
> standardization of char sets and fonts for the 10
> Indian scripts in question.

A well established set of Indic presentation forms would be indeed be
very useful. It would certainly be a prerequisite before we can even
start thinking about doing Indic in VT100-style terminal emulators,
which will also require consensus on the wcwidth() values for all these
presentation forms..

Markus

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Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > We are in contact with people willing to contribute such a font.
> > A FreeType font driver would be added also.
>
> I would be interested in contributing to such a project. Please let
> me know who is already working on this.

Please be patient for a few weeks.

> My qualifications for such a project include knowledge of Asian
> languages (Thai and Chinese), and once upon a time, I studied and
> taught Western calligraphy.

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