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-
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:47 PM
> To: Boncek, John
> Cc: gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Chinese Simplified appearance
>
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:26 -0500, Boncek, John wrote:
> > Attached is a screen shot of a screen we are generating using Pango
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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
development.
Previous to this, I had thought that having the proper Unicode characters
was all that should be needed.
-Original Message-
From: Owen Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:47 PM
To: Boncek, John
Cc: gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Chinese Simplified
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:26 -0500, Boncek, John wrote:
> Attached is a screen shot of a screen we are generating using Pango
> with GTK 2.2.4. It is a print preview screen with the printout mostly
> in Chinese Simplified. Does the Chinese look correct? It looks to us
> like Pango may have select
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:53:05AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Correct in what sense? Does the Chinese make sense? Yes, it generally
> reads OK. Does it look good? Obviously not. Does it look like Chinese
> normally comes out on Linux machines? Yes. Pretty much all Chinese on a
> Linux mach
Hi
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:26:35 -0500
"Boncek, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Attached is a screen shot of a screen we are generating using Pango with
>GTK 2.2.4. It is a print preview screen with the printout mostly in
>Chinese Simplified. Does the Chinese look correct? It looks to us like
Hi John,
Correct in what sense? Does the Chinese make sense? Yes, it generally
reads OK. Does it look good? Obviously not. Does it look like Chinese
normally comes out on Linux machines? Yes. Pretty much all Chinese on a
Linux machin currently looks this bad. Things like Firefox seem to get
t
Title: Chinese Simplified appearance
Attached is a screen shot of a screen we are generating using Pango with GTK 2.2.4. It is a print preview screen with the printout mostly in Chinese Simplified. Does the Chinese look correct? It looks to us like Pango may have selected different
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