Re: [tlug] Freely distributable Japanese capable utf8 font?

["david.blomberg" <david.blomberg@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> I'm working on some PHP code which will later be distributed as open 
> source.
>
> Part of the code generates images with text in it, in English and 
> Japanese. For that, I need to have a font included with my code.
>
> After some web searching, it seemed that the font FreeSans.ttf would do 
> the trick. It appeared at first to be both freely distributable (GPL, I 
> think), and have all the character sets.
>
> But, it turns out that for Japanese, it only has kana, and no kanji.
>
> I'm looking for a font, hopefully sans-serif, that has the ability to 
> render utf8 Japanese characters, and I can bundle with my code.
>
> Does anyone know of a font that I could use?
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Fonts

has:
Japanese:
Unmodulated: Sazanami Gothic (project-specific BSD-like DFSG compatible)
Modulated: Sazanami Mincho (project-specific BSD-like DFSG compatible)
Screen: Sazanami Gothic (project-specific BSD-like DFSG compatible)