Re: Re[2]: HKSCS Font from Arphic
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, hashao wrote:
> Ã> ¡i ¦b spacehunt (ÃiÃiÂy¤H) ªº¤j§@¤¤´£¨ì: ¡j
> Ã> : ¡i ¦b hashao@telebot.com (hashao) ªº¤j§@¤¤´£¨ì: ¡j
> Ã> : : Anyone know the detail infomation of the tte font? I think
> Ã> : It is just a normal ttf font it seems ..
>
> It's my first impression too. But I cannot open it
> using any font manager tools in My English Windows. When
> I try to open it with ftview comes the freetype-tool packages,
> the font does openned successfully but the glyph are
> all wrong (except the first one). I figure it has something
> more than standard ttf.
How about xmbdfed? I was able to open up GCCS .tte files with it before,
but the Unicode cmaps map entirely to PUA staritng with E000--I think
because those are the PUA mappings for all Big5 EUDC gaiji in Windows.
> Firstly, We should decide what name the hkscs charset should be
> and what's the locale for hkscs: hkscs and zh_HK.hkscs? zh_HK.big5HK?
> zh_HK.big5hkscs? The charset can be hkscs but the locale indeed
> included both big5 and hkscs. Maybe zh_HK.big5 is clear enough to
> tell that it is a HK localized version of big5.
I think "HKSCS" in one spelling or another should be included in the name,
so that people do not just see "Big5" and assume HK people are using
the same thing as TW people and leave out support for those 4,702 HKSCS
characters. (Some already think it is okay for HK people to just use
"zh_TW"...)
Maybe just saying "HKSCS" is fine, since that more or less implies Big5
because no one is just going to use HKSCS by itself. (But in the past,
there were strange things like Pan-Chinese Windows NT, which uses GBK,
to add on ~1,500 characters from GCCS which weren't already in GBK,
so "GCCS" didn't imply Big5 as a base character set there.)
Perhaps something else to consider in the naming scheme for
consistency/compatibility is how to handle Big5 w/ various EUDC... Can I
send you a document in "zh_HK.Big5-DynalabHKA" or
"zh_HK.Big5-AppleDaily" or "zh_TW.Big5-InstituteOfZoology" or am I just
out of luck because those are treated as vendor character sets?
Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu
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