-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 06:31, William Ballard wrote: > Arne Goetje pointed me to excellent Chinese truetype fonts in: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg03881. >html, they handle most encodings correctly. > > I cannot remember which I want: > ukai-mbe/, ukai/, uming-mbe/, uming/ > from http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/ > > The ukai-* fonts are 9.5 MB and the uming-* fonts are 7.5 MB, so I > think I want ukai, but Arne previously said the best fonts were 12 > MB. And I can't remember if I want *-mbe or not (I think not).
Please see http://tavi.debian.org.tw/index.php?page=Unifonts for the latest release. Short description: kai and ming refer to the font shape, which are the same like the Arphic fonts AR PL ZenKai Medium and AR PL Mingti2L. The only difference between the -mbe fonts and the other affects the way the Bopomofo Extensions (used in teaching materials for Minnan / Hakka in Taiwan) look like. The official glyphs, like they are in the Unicode standard are not widely accepted, because the glyphs are sometimes hard to distinguish and not "easy" to write. That's why Mr. Yang Qing-Chu created a different looking set of these characters. This new set is used by several publishers in their teaching materials instead of the official ones nowadays. I simply named them "Modern Bopomofo Extensions", hence -mbe. An image on how the Extensions look like is on the link above. Please note that the current deb packages (0.0.20040229-1) have a little bug in the hints file. I will upload new ones tonight. The fonts are frequently updated, as I'm working on including the missing charachters for HKSCS (Hong Kong) and CNS11643 (Taiwan), which will yield into GB18030 support (China) later. The fonts are made as a replacement for the current Arphic fonts in Debian, although I need some help with the tfm packages... Cheers Arne - -- Arne GÃtje (éçè) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdLUUbp/QbmhdHowRAjPSAJ46qPFwWiiI4P6lgRbCLtjJIf1qPQCbBLaw Lp2kz6e6basIBJ5vFCGBTw8= =m75F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
