Re: open source CJK ext A, B fonts

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Sun Aug 10 2008 - 08:11:17 CDT

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    Quoting Kino <quinon@rio.odn.ne.jp>:

    >
    > On 2008-08-04, at 6:32 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
    >
    >> Does any of you know of any decent open source fonts supporting the CJK A
    >> and/or B range?
    >
    > <http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/fonts/fonts_hannom.html>
    >
    > HAN NOM A covers the glyphs from (code points by the Unicode Consortium
    > , unicode.org) :
    >
    > o Radicals Supplements [u+2F00 - u+2FD5 (214 glyphs)]
    >
    > o CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A [u+3400 - u+4DB5 (6572 glyphs)]
    >
    > o CJK Unified Ideographs [u+4E00 - u+9FA5 (20,832 glyphs)]
    >
    > o Private Use Area [u+E000 ... (glyphs temporarily used by the
    > Dictionary compilers team)]
    >
    > HAN NOM B covers :
    >
    > o CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [u+20000 - u+2A6D6 (42,702 glyphs)]
    >

    The above is all unicode compliant

    > o Fillers used by font designers on purpose [u+2A6D0 ...]
    >

    This hoever is not unicode compliant - the codepoints are reserved,
    and this includes U+2A700 to U+2A769

    If you have HAN NOM B as the fallback for plane 2 then the following

    http://gdzhdb.l10n-support.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?sample_text=0002A7%5B0123456%5D

    which also gives an ids description of the Extension C character
    illustrates the problem with using reserved codepoints.

    Regards
    John Knightley

    >
    > Kino

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