Quoting Gregor Riepl (2017-05-11 08:13:51) > > I am a debian user and frome china mainland.Baeutiful fonts are too > > less in debian.But noto font is a good choice.However I find noto > > fonts are too large in debian software repository,more than > > 100MB.And I find it include Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, > > Korean and Japanese. But as a chinese, I hardlyever use Korean and > > Japanese.I believe most Korean and Japanese also need native > > language only.I suggest spliting this package named > > fonts-noto-cjk,and seperate package Simplified Chinese, Traditional > > Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It can reduce the package size,and > > more targeted, flexible, according to the need to install the > > required fonts. > > I'm not sure if splitting up the .ttc files would reduce their size > significantly. > > As you may know, these languages share a good deal of common glyphs, > at least as far as the standardised character sets go. > > For example, while the character 气 has a different Simplified > Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese form, others like 木 are > exactly the same. So, if you cut off the language (or region) specific > characters, you would end up with a somewhat smaller file, but not by > much, since the resulting fonts would still have to contain the shared > glyphs. And if you (for whatever reason) need the complete CJK set, > you would have to install fonts with significant overlap. > > The only benefit may possibly come from splitting off the Hangeul set, > but I wonder if it's really worth the effort. > > Perhaps it may make more sense to separate the different font styles. Please note that "the effort" only involves picking the fonts to package - the separation into regions is done already upstream. According to their chart (which we may not agree with) the location-specific fonts are recommended for Linux: http://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/ - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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