On 06/08/2010 10:58 AM, Scott Severance wrote: > I'd like to second iEGL's suggestion to remove Hangeul from that font. > After all, Hangeul is pretty much irrelevant to Chinese, which is the > focus of that font. And there is already adequate Hangeul coverage > included by default without that font. Let that font do its job of > handling Chinese, and let Korean fonts handle Korean (by the way, Korean > rarely uses Hanja; Hangeul is used almost all of the time). Why should a > Chinese font include Hangeul? >
I kindly disagree. First of all, the issue itself is only related to an anti-aliasing setting in a fontconfig file. It has nothing to do with the Hangul glyphs themselves included in these font. The right solution has been already provided in comment #8. Secondly, because Korean people rarely use Han characters does not mean Chinese won't use Hangul. For the same reason, LGC people almost never use Chinese, that won't give you a conclusion that all LGC characters should be removed from Chinese fonts. (Hangul are found in many Chinese ASCII arts, and I believe many Korean literature and archives have Hanja) Thirdly, removing Hangul from these two fonts gain little saving in terms of space. All Hangeul glyphs are composed of references, and removing them only save a few hundred KB. The price to pay is that Chinese users have to install Korean fonts to read Korean. That is almost tons of MB in space. A single compact Unicode font is very important for many mini-distributions and i18n support for open-source games. Lastly, Hanguls in Korean fonts and Chinese fonts have different metrics and slightly different styles. It is always good to have matched metrics when displaying a text mixed with different languages. -- ttf-wqy-microhei ttf-wqy-zenhei break Korean fonts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475240 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs