Alan G Isaac wrote:
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, "A.J.Mechelynck" apparently wrote:
MingLiU for East-Asian ideograms.
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/fonts.htm
Unfortunately, the only way of legally obtaining it now
appears to be by enabling Traditional Chinese support in
Windows. Microsoft used to offer it for download but
seem to have stopped being so generous.
fwiw,
Alan Isaac
I said it's what I use on Windows. On Linux I haven't researched the
matter yet but there ought to be an acceptable CJK font (or several);
see further down.
Enabling Traditional Chinese support in Windows should cost you $0, at
least if you still have your Windows CD (on a laptop your Windows
"hidden partition" pseudo-CD) or if you can download it as a Language
Pack from the Windows Update site ( http://www.windowsupdate.com/ and
you need Internet Explorer to access it).
In Vim for GTK+1, GTK+2, Photon, Mac or Windows, and also in kvim (which
isn't supported anymore but I have a 6.2.14 version on this SuSE 9.3
system), you can see all installed fonts acceptable to Vim in a menu by
using
:set guifont=*
The problem is that the names don't always say which glyphs they
support. ("AR PL Kaitim", which is subdivided into "AR PL Kaitim Big5"
and "AR PL Kaitim GB", is obviously a Chinese font, but what about "Misc
Fixed"?). In other versions of gvim you can't even get that menu, and
you may need to "hunt" through your X font directories for an acceptable
filename in XLFD format (see ":help XLFD" and "help setting-guifont").
Best regards,
Tony.
