From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 09:07:32 EDT
Raymond Mercier wrote:
>I am intrigued by GB18030 encoding. There is a table of equivalences in
>http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/charset/data/xml/gb-18030-200
>0.xml
>No doubt Unihan will at some stage include these 2 & 4 byte values.
>
>I enquired about the 'super font' created by a Beijing foundry,
>http://font.founder.com.cn/english/web/index.htm, and am fairly astonished
>at the prices, as you see from the attached.
>
(!!!)
Something has to be wrong, since the website has a press release
discussing how their Super Font is bundled with Microsoft Office XP, and
even Microsoft's prices haven't gotten that high!
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "GaoZhiQing (高志青)" <gzq@founder.com>
>To: <RaymondM@compuserve.com>
>Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:09 PM
>Subject: re:GB18030 super font
>
>
>Hello Mercier,
>
>The price of our GB18030 font:
>20,000US$/1 font per year license.
>80,000US$/perpetual license.
>
>The price of our GB2312 bitmap font:
>15,000US$/4 years license.(ONE SIZE)
>(We provide China standard bitmap fonts,the price and term has constitute by
>Chinses government.You company must agreement with chinese government.We can
>act at an agent.)
>
Maybe they're using , as the decimal separator and giving three digits
after instead of two for some reason? I know, that's reaching.
~mark
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