I'm really having an off day. I sent the message below to the list with an attachment when that should have been sent off-list. The message to the list should have had a link as shown below.
On 2020-02-29 12:05, home user wrote: > On 2020-02-28 02:34 PM, Ed wrote: > > > > So why are there two separate AR PL UKai fonts - > > > the CN and the TW? What *is* the difference? > > Well, that would require a comparison of the fonts. > > However, I do know that there are terms/characters > > used and created in Taiwan which are not used in > > the PRC. So, it is possible that the TW font > > contains them and the CN not. The reverse is also > > possibly true. FWIW, the same holds true for HK. > I had read that before, and since forgotten. What Ed said completely answers > my two questions about the 2 AR PL UKai fonts. Comparison not needed. > > By the way, those two Chinese characters in Ed's last post might look the > same in some displays. They look the same in Fedora HYPERKITTY in my > Firefox, and in my Thunderbird "Write" window, but different in my > Thunderbird main message display. They look the same in my Gnome terminal. Actually, thanks for telling me. I can now amend my answer. My assumptions were wrong. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xTYVez2DRm7GKg6dguev1s49GFJKIGkl/view?usp=sharing The circled character on top is U+5167 and should be the Traditional rendering. The one below is U+5185 and should be the Simplified rendering. So, now we know the real difference between the CN and TW AR PL UKai fonts. The authors of the font have decided to render all characters in the style associated with either CN or TW depending to the selected font. To me, that is a bad choice and another reason why I'd avoid that font. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
