Hello debian-installer developers, Frans Pop asked me to look at this discussion about CJK fonts in g-i and send my comments as the initial font change (Arphic TTF to wqy bitmap) was my suggestion. I appreciate his considerateness and am very happy to do so. So I looked at the screeshots made by Attilio Fiandrotti [1,2] based on Kenshi Muto's suggestion. The Chinese screenshot looks reasonably good except one big problem - the second character for the second choice, Taiwan, is missing. It should be "台湾", but only the fisrt character is shown. The screenshots from Hidetaka Iwai [3,4] using embedded bitmap font for Chinese looks better than the one above, and all characters are good. It doesn't look like 12pt (which is 16x16 pixels for the bitmaps in xfonts-wqy) as claimed though, but more like 9pt (12x12) or 10pt (13x13). I don't know enough about d-i to have an opinion on how to handle the fonts in GTK+ frontend, but I'm willing to review screenshots and/or test isos. I lack the expertise and time to build iso by my own, though. A general opinion among the Chinese (at least simplified Chinese) users, as far as I see, is that bitmap fonts look nicer than Truetype fonts at small size，due to the complex shapes of most Chinese characters. So please keep using bitmap fonts (either stand-alone or embedded in TrueType fonts) for Chinese if possible. I'd also like to ask for a favor from people generating screenshots for Chinese. As zh_CN and zh_TW are practially two different locales (as different as ja and ko are), and has different legacy encodings (therefore often different fonts), please post screenshots for both. The screenshot in [2] only has the zh_CN one, while the one in [4] only has the zh_TW one, so I can't really know how it looks for the other locale. Thanks for all your hard work on d-i. (Please cc: me when reply, I'm not subscribed to debian-boot, altough I read the web archives now and then, thanks.) 1. Message-id: <[🔎] 4392BC58.6050402@tiscalinet.it> 2. https://debian.polito.it/downloads/g-i_ttf-freefont-udeb_screenshots/ 3. Message-id: <[🔎] 20051208.013030.74734205.tyuyu@debian.or.jp> 4. http://hp.debian.or.jp/~tyuyu/debian-installer/zh.jpg Ming 2005.12.13
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