Re: [tlug] Creating UTF-8 Fonts

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Uva" == Uva Coder <uva.coder@example.com> writes:

    Uva> I'm looking to produce nicer and complete fonts for an
    Uva> UTF-8 project.

What do you mean by "complete"?  Coverage for all characters in
Unicode?  Coverage for the BMP?

    Uva> Does anyone having any suggestions, recommendations or
    Uva> experiences in such an endeavour?  Any help is greatly
    Uva> appreciated.

First, it's going to be very hard because of Unihan; there are many
characters that Japanese and Chinese are going to disagree strongly on
"nice".  OTOH, fonts produced by Japanese are unlikely to be complete;
they surely won't cover simplified Chinese, for example.  So you need
to decide how you are going to handle that compromise.

Second, what is the proposed distribution format?  OpenType?
TrueType?  Type1?  BDF?

Adobe's developer site has some good docs on font formats
(specifically Type1 and OpenType).  BDF is well documented in the
X.org documents.  There is a newsgroup comp.fonts; mostly it's people
looking for fonts for some purpose, so you could just ask your
question there directly.


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