From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 21:03:30 CDT
Quoting Ed Trager <ed.trager@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
The code2000/code2002 glyphs have the same style as the wenquan font
above - this style, sometimes called heiti, is used primarily designed
for computer display purposes.
The ming/song style of uming.ttf, Han Nom is primarily designed for printing.
Whatever the style the range of fonts available for CJK characters is
very limited and there is certainly a need for more to be available.
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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