Re: zh_HK.Big5 locale

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Hi hashao,

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: Ã> Note that this is not enough to be able to use HKSCS: fonts with HKSCS
: Ã> characters are needed; if using xfs-xtt, xfs-xtt also needs to be patched.
: Ã> Even with all that, for some reason, it still doesn't work with GTK...

I just found out this afternoon that GTK calls XmbTextListToTextProperty,
which in turn uses glibc2.1's iconv(), so therefore the Big5 module in
gconv-modules needs to be modified as well ...

: I wonder what the license status for the HKSCS reference font. Since
: it is provided by the Hong Kong SAR government, we have a chance to
: use it as a free (Freedom) font.

>From http://www.digital21.gov.hk/chi/hkscs/download.html:
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That was all I could find. It's not very clear whether it's free...

: Then the font for the extended
: charset could be extracted and ported to Linux. Maybe there should be
: a seperated font class for the HKSCS in xlocale, this I am not sure.

Yes, the .TTE font provided by the SAR Government can be extracted as 
a bitmap font, or it can be used directly as a normal TrueType font.
To be able to do that though, HKSCS should be defined as a separate font
class, and xfs-xtt needs to be modified too..

: Ã> However, since HKSCS itself is still a non-standard extension to Big5,
: Ã> is this a right thing to do?
: I think it is a good thing. One of our goal is to provide convenient
: Chinese environment under Linux. A lot of HK users will benefit
: from this locale right now. Beside, it will not be hard to
: update to the standard later on.

That's true, all the data in the locale definition files were generated
by a few simple scripts :p

Cheers,
spacehunt
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