yanmin wrote:
Dear Javier,
In the font that is used in Windows, are English and Tibetan scripts
equivalent in size?
No, the Tibetan fonts provided by many Chinese IT organizations doesn't
match the Chinese or English fonts well in the equivalent size. Some experts
is urging to make a Tibetan font standard in order to solve this problem
which lead to poor matching between Tibetan and other language.
For Khmer, the font that comes with Vista is unusable for localization,
because English size 10 is equivalent to Khmer size 22 (inside the same
font). If I write a bi-lingual text, and put all of it at size 10, then the
Khmer is too small to be readable. If by default these fonts are used in
user-interfaces, then, they are not readable.
Tibetan also looks much smaller than English or Chinese text at the same
size. So there really need to set the size or style respectively for
different fonts to represent multilingual text correctly. It
seems convenient to do that in a configuration file similar to VCL.xcu for
programmers.
Hi Yanmin,
This would be very complicated, as sometimes English and Tibetan will be
mixed in the same message (for example when you use an acronim in
English). It is necessary that your system (user interface font) uses a
proportional font. You can use non-proportional fonts for
word-processing (it is not very good, because you have to be changing
sizes when you change script, and then it is very difficult to edit
multilingual documents), but usually most user interfaces are not
prepared for non-proportional fonts, and I do not think that they will
make the changes now, as they would take a huge effort, and the tendency
now for all complex scripts now is to use proportional fonts.
If I remember well, Bhutan has proportional opens source fonts that
could be used. I don't know if their font styles agree with tibetan
taste. Chris Fynn would be the person to talk to.
Cheers,
Javier
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