hi Jens
it is a great news for better font support on Fedora. I am curious if it is possible to consider wqy-bitmap-fonts as the default desktop font for Chinese locales? the bitmap glyphs were continuously improved in the past ~3 years based on the embedded bitmaps in fonts-chinese and the wqy-bitmapfont was widely used by simplified Chinese users.
also, WenQuanYi Project plans to release a dual-width bitmap font similar to GNU Unifont, by merging about 28,000 16x16 new Chinese glyphs with the latest release of Unifont (the Chinese glyphs in unifont is neither complete nor optimized). The new font will cover about 46000 unicode code points and serve as a basic multi-lingual support (such as in installer) and system font fall-back.
we just put out a new GPL Chinese font, Zen Hei, for public testing. This is a Hei Ti style (Gothic in Japanese or Dotum in Korean) Chinese font, servers for general purpose Chinese display and printing. Current, it has 20194 Chinese characters (or ~32000 glyphs if include Hangul) and covers zh_cn/sg/tw/hk/mo locales. The file is reasonably small including about 100,000 fine-tuned embedded bitmap glyphs. The beta version can be downloaded at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192&package_id=...
If these fonts are interesting to fedora i18n group, I would be glad to help for testing and further improving.
Please let me know.
Qianqian
Jens Petersen wrote:
Hi,
In the recent online I18n session at FUDConF8 there was some discussion of installation defaults related to international language support, and it was suggested that we should be installing more fonts by default to get better desktop language display coverage out of the box.
So I would like to propose we start installing the following fonts by default on the desktop:
fonts-ISO8859-2, fonts-KOI8-R, fonts-arabic, fonts-chinese, fonts-hebrew, fonts-indic, fonts-japanese, fonts-korean, fonts-sinhala, and xorg-x11-fonts.
I believe the mainstream commercial desktop OS's already do this.
dejavu-fonts and dejavu-fonts-experimental also occur in quite a few language groups, so they might be worth including too?
Any comments or suggestions on this?
Jens
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