Re: [jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk: ANNOUNCE: Xfsft-1.1.7]
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 10:20:04AM +0800, Anthony Fok wrote:
|Hello hashao! :-)
|
|On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 03:19:23PM +0800, hashao wrote:
|> Read:
|> http://www.xfree86.org/snapshots/3.9.16/fonts4.html
|> BTW, CID keyed font is also supported in 4.0. And I heard a taiwan Font
|> company just released a set of TTF font under a license similar to
|> GPL. They also plan to release a set of CID font as I heard.
|> ftp://linux.tmtc.edu.tw/pub/arphic/
|
|Yes, Anthony Wong and I have been thinking of packaging these four new
|Arphic fonts (Big5 and GB, Kaiti and Songti), but is currently either
|busy or waiting for the new installxfont script (?)
yep...
see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/46/46684.html
I tried the Songti
|GB font under Debian's XFree86 3.3.5 (with xserver-s3 and libxfont
|3.3.4-2.0.xtt.1 from Debian-JP), and it works GREAT! :-) I am having
|trouble getting the Big5 font to work though. Perhaps something still
|needs to be done about X-TT or XFree86's locale. And of course,
|zh_CN.GB2312 isn't in glibc2.1 in Debian potato yet AFAIK. Don't know
|if we can get it done before November 1 freeze.
|
|If anyone here doesn't mind working to solve these problems within the
|next two weeks, we could certainly use the help! :-)
I hope so too.
--
Anthony Wong. [ E-mail: hajime@asunaro.dhs.org / ypwong@debian.org ]
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