Re: International Fonts: 3Anoppix; Arne Goetje; al-jazeera
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On Thursday 08 April 2004 06:31, William Ballard wrote:
> Arne Goetje pointed me to excellent Chinese truetype fonts in:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg03881.
>html, they handle most encodings correctly.
>
> I cannot remember which I want:
> ukai-mbe/, ukai/, uming-mbe/, uming/
> from http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/
>
> The ukai-* fonts are 9.5 MB and the uming-* fonts are 7.5 MB, so I
> think I want ukai, but Arne previously said the best fonts were 12
> MB. And I can't remember if I want *-mbe or not (I think not).
Please see http://tavi.debian.org.tw/index.php?page=Unifonts for the
latest release.
Short description: kai and ming refer to the font shape, which are the
same like the Arphic fonts AR PL ZenKai Medium and AR PL Mingti2L.
The only difference between the -mbe fonts and the other affects the way
the Bopomofo Extensions (used in teaching materials for Minnan / Hakka
in Taiwan) look like. The official glyphs, like they are in the Unicode
standard are not widely accepted, because the glyphs are sometimes hard
to distinguish and not "easy" to write. That's why Mr. Yang Qing-Chu
created a different looking set of these characters. This new set is
used by several publishers in their teaching materials instead of the
official ones nowadays. I simply named them "Modern Bopomofo
Extensions", hence -mbe. An image on how the Extensions look like is on
the link above.
Please note that the current deb packages (0.0.20040229-1) have a little
bug in the hints file. I will upload new ones tonight.
The fonts are frequently updated, as I'm working on including the
missing charachters for HKSCS (Hong Kong) and CNS11643 (Taiwan), which
will yield into GB18030 support (China) later.
The fonts are made as a replacement for the current Arphic fonts in
Debian, although I need some help with the tfm packages...
Cheers
Arne
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