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Re: ITP: ttf-baekmuk -- Baekmuk Korean truetype fonts



At 19 Mar 2001 07:31:58 +0900,
Changwoo Ryu wrote:

> Sorry, it seems like a good patch.  In fact, I have been annoyed by
> merging Japanese-centric patches into the official debian packages,
> especially the gs patch.

Terribly sorry for the stupid localizing patch. I don't like it, too.

> Do you know any web-pages or mailing list archives of gs-cjk project?
> Please let me know.  (Japanese pages are OK.)

http://www.gyve.org/gs-cjk

> The Korean ones I know are uglier than the gs patch.  :)  One uses
> modified vflib (which is Korean only, while the vflib freetype module
> is Japanese only), one uses freetype, and the other emulates CID keyed
> fonts.  Of course I also hate all of those.

Emulating CID-keyed fonts is the way gs-cjk adopts, and it is
appropriate for handling CJK characters. You know there're a lot of
standards of charsets and encodings of CJK. CID/CMap technology is the
best way to handle them in my opinion.

> Ok I'll send a follow-up on the wnpp wishlist.  btw where's the
> hintfile?

i'll mail the hintfile to you later.

> Um..  I said a tool like defoma but as a debian standard so all fonts
> packages uses it.

Step by step :)

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Yasuhiro Take aka hirot / <take@debian.org>
Debian Project
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