From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 04:44:44 CST
Dear mpsuzuki,
thank-you for the modified fonts. As you say the CodePageRange seems
to be the key.
I have just discovered in fontforge I am able to adjust these by
selecting Element > Font info > OS/2 > Charsets, and then pressing
control to select multiple ranges.
Reagrds
John
Quoting mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp:
> Hi,
>
> Here I attached 3 sample TTFs that I modified UnicodeRanges
> and CodePageRanges by binary editor.
>
> vs17-ucr.ttf:
> All bits in UnicodeRange in OS/2 are set, so all Unicode
> characters are declared as available. CodePageRange
> bits are left (original vs17.ttf declares Latin1 codepage).
>
> vs17-cpr.ttf:
> All bits in CodePageRange in OS/2 are set, so all codepages
> are declared as available. UnicodeRange bits are left
> (original vs17.ttf declares CJK Symbols & Punctuations only).
>
> vs17-ucr+cpr.ttf:
> All bits in UnicodeRange and CodePageRange in OS/2 are set.
>
> When I install in Microsoft Windows XP and check wordpad.exe,
> vs17-ucr.ttf is shown as Latin1 font, but vs17-cpr, vs17-ucr+cpr
> are shown as capable: Big5, GB2312, Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic,
> Symbol, Thai, Turky, Baltic, Korean Wansung, Korean Johab,
> Vietnamese, Hebrew, Latin1, Central European, and Japanese.
> So I think CodePageRange may be important. Please try the fonts
> in your environment.
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:39:28 -0600
> vunzndi@vfemail.net wrote:
>
>>
>> In the process of preparing a document for unicode related work I made
>> the attached small font containing 19 cjk glyphs. On linux the font
>> functions as expected, however when installed on
>> windunicode@unicode.orgows XP (Chinese version), in both word and
>> wordpad the font is considered by the system to be a western font and
>> therefore can not be used for cjk characters.
>>
>> My question then are, "How does windows decide whether a font is
>> Chinese or not? What needs to be added to this font."
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> John Knightley
>
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