Re: open source CJK ext A, B fonts

From: Ed Trager (ed.trager@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 09:36:58 CDT

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    On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:09 AM, <vunzndi@vfemail.net> wrote:
    >
    > Dear Jeroen
    >
    > Assuming you mean ttf fonts, this is not an easy question to answer. There
    > is yet to be such a open source font with good coverage.
    >
    > The most opensource cjk fonts are ukai.ttf and uming.ttf see
    > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts .
    >
    > uming.ttf has some Ext A support and Extension B support, and
    > hopefully in the not too distant future (sometime in 2008 or 2009)
    > will have full ExtA support. This is IMHO the best option if one is
    > looking for a open source CJK project to build from. A verion of the latest
    > build is at
    > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/ttf-arphic-uming/ttf-arphic-uming_0.2.20080216.1.orig.tar.gz
    >
    > I have been using this myself as the base, with lots of PUA cjk characters.
    >
    >
    > The wenquan project http://wqy.sourceforge.net now has Ext A support,
    > and is working on Ext B - the font is open source, however parts of the
    > project though not are not strictly speaking open source.
    >
    > If one is just looking for a free font the biggest coverage is Hannom
    > A nad B - which though free to download on sourceforge is not open source.
    >
    > Also James Kass shareware Code200, http://www.code2000.net , has
    > complete Ext A, and Code2002 has fairly extenive Extension B coverage.

    Unfortunately the Code2000 CJK glyph forms are (IMO) not as
    aesthetically pleasing as in other fonts.

    >
    > On occasions I have used unifont.pcf.gz which at 3.1M is small enoch to put
    > in ackages as a back up unicode font.
    >
    > Regards
    > John Knightley
    >
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    >
    >
    >
    > Quoting Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org>:
    >
    >> Does any of you know of any decent open source fonts supporting the CJK A
    >> and/or B range?
    >>
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