Re: [tlug] Creating UTF-8 Fonts

["TheBlueMuppet" <thebluemuppet@example.com>]

Uva,

I think it's a good initiative. In my experience one of the main reasons for
"normal" Japanese peoples resistance to adopt linux as a desktop OS is the
ugly fonts. However, with the amount of characters needed for a single set
of fonts I'd say it's a daunting task.

Thanks // Jonas



----- Original Message -----
From: "Uva Coder" <uva.coder@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] Creating UTF-8 Fonts


> On 4/14/05, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by "complete"?  Coverage for all characters in
> > Unicode?  Coverage for the BMP?
>
> When using Plan 9 to view BDF, we get a lot of empty glyphs.
> We haved looked at using X unicode fonts, but they are really UGLY.
> So in the meanwhile, we are looking  at other alternatives.
>
> > 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.
>
> Ok, I understand.
>
> > Second, what is the proposed distribution format?  OpenType?
> > TrueType?  Type1?  BDF?
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for the help, Stephen.  I see that I have a lot more reading to
> do to come up to speed on this subject.
>
> -uva
>
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