hi
sorry for intrusion. let me introduce myself first, my name is Qianqian Fang, one of the Fedora Core users and open-source software developers.
As you may know (or maybe not), Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) support under Linux is always a pain in the neck and I have heard enough complains about it for almost all Linux distributions. One of the major difficulties is that there is not a single "good" open-source Chinese font available: there are open-source True-type CJK fonts, but they have no bitmap font embeded as in commertial CJK fonts, the screen rendering of these fonts are so blurred and make it difficult to read.
I (and my team) have been working on a CJK font project since last October, after months of hard working (our work is also based on many other previous works), we have developed bitmap fonts covered complete CJK Unified Ideographics (20,902 characters at 4 pixel sizes and two weights, making about 180,000 glyphs). We just announced our second release. This font is extremely easy to install and use, we provided both BDF/PCF versions. The font is developed by thousands of contributors at our wiki website (http://wqy.sf.net/en/ ) and is licensed under GPL. We are currently working on Unicode CJK extension A as well as open-source outline CJK fonts.
I am curious if it is possible to submit this font package to Fedora development team for review (I don't know if this is the official way to do that or not), and for consideration of including it into your distribution. This could make CJK users' lives much easier.
The latest version of this font can be downloaded from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192&package_id=...
thank you.
Qianqian
Hi Qianqian,
Thanks for your efforts on the font and time to assist Fedora! I will be contacting you on details of steps of including this font.
Cheers, Leon
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 13:27, fangq@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
hi
sorry for intrusion. let me introduce myself first, my name is Qianqian Fang, one of the Fedora Core users and open-source software developers.
As you may know (or maybe not), Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) support under Linux is always a pain in the neck and I have heard enough complains about it for almost all Linux distributions. One of the major difficulties is that there is not a single "good" open-source Chinese font available: there are open-source True-type CJK fonts, but they have no bitmap font embeded as in commertial CJK fonts, the screen rendering of these fonts are so blurred and make it difficult to read.
I (and my team) have been working on a CJK font project since last October, after months of hard working (our work is also based on many other previous works), we have developed bitmap fonts covered complete CJK Unified Ideographics (20,902 characters at 4 pixel sizes and two weights, making about 180,000 glyphs). We just announced our second release. This font is extremely easy to install and use, we provided both BDF/PCF versions. The font is developed by thousands of contributors at our wiki website (http://wqy.sf.net/en/ ) and is licensed under GPL. We are currently working on Unicode CJK extension A as well as open-source outline CJK fonts.
I am curious if it is possible to submit this font package to Fedora development team for review (I don't know if this is the official way to do that or not), and for consideration of including it into your distribution. This could make CJK users' lives much easier.
The latest version of this font can be downloaded from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192&package_id=... 288
thank you.
Qianqian
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