Re: [g-i] fonts: a few thoughts

[Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>]

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Hi,

At 13 Dec 05 21:48:30 GMT,
Ming Hua wrote:
> 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 "~~", but only the fisrt character
> is shown.

This was my fault. I forgot to include characters of iso-codes
and already fixed in current TTF.

> 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).

Right. We noticed fontforge script takes bitmap parameter by pixel,
not point. Now I fixed to include 16 pixel font.

> 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.

I took some screenshots of keyboard selection to describe my
thought. http://people.debian.org/~kmuto/d-i/cjk/cjk.html

IMHO antialiased uming.ttf for simplifed/traditional is enough visible
for me.
http://people.debian.org/~kmuto/d-i/cjk/nox-ttf-simple.png
http://people.debian.org/~kmuto/d-i/cjk/nox-ttf-traditional.png

Thanks,
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Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org
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