On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:27:10 -0700
Ed Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Or, do you mean "it is a very small issue because the number of
>> > different looking characters are small and negligible"?
>>
>> I don't have numbers on this. Do you? I have myself only seen a few
Am I asked to give
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:12:13 -0400
"Edward H. Trager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The only case I can think of is that Japanese users like to see Kanji
>displayed using a Japanese font for Japanese language, whereas Chinese
>users want to see a Chinese font for probably both Chinese and Japanese.
>
> "John" == Boncek, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> It does seem that this dependency on a language setting goes
John> against the overall thrust of Unicode/Pango and really
John> complicates development.
Actually, specifying the language is /exactly/ in line with Unicode
philosophy.
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:20:55PM -0400, Edward H. Trager wrote:
> So, what are the good fonts? I highly recommend Debian Taiwan's
> "Unifonts" project which has taken two CJK font styles graciously donated to
> the Open Source community by Arphic Technologies and recoded these into
> Unicode-
Hi, John,
On Thursday 2005.09.01 10:50:06 -0500, Boncek, John wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded. The responses were very informative.
>
> I used pango_context_set_language in this case and got very good-looking,
> uniform display.
>
> It does seem that this dependency on a language setting
Hi, John and Everyone,
As another respondant has correctly stated, you can get very good display
of Chinese on modern Linux. Actually, you can get excellent display.
In addition to Owen Taylor's suggestions below,
you just need to have good fonts (and of course you can tell Pango to use those
go
Thanks to all who responded. The responses were very informative.
I used pango_context_set_language in this case and got very good-looking,
uniform display.
It does seem that this dependency on a language setting goes against the
overall thrust of Unicode/Pango and really complicates development
