Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-30 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 05:17:04PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: What are those glyphs? (I'm quite surprised, I would have expected the opposite: fonts generally have more glyphs than the standard encodings of the sio-8859 family for example) My definition of language tag is

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-30 Thread Yu Shao
Pablo Saratxaga wrote: Kaixo! On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 05:17:04PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: What are those glyphs? (I'm quite surprised, I would have expected the opposite: fonts generally have more glyphs than the standard encodings of the sio-8859 family for example) My definition of

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Keith Packard
Around 9 o'clock on Jun 29, Jungshik Shin wrote: IMHO, most problems with Han Unification arise not from using a _single_ font targeted at one of zh_TW/zh_CN/ja/ko to render a run of text in another but from mixing _multiple_ fonts (with _drastically different_ design principle and other

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Jungshik Shin wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Keith Packard wrote: I'm confused by this; my exposure to Chinese fonts says that simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese have significant overlap in Unicode codepoints, but that the glyphs are quite a bit different in

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Yao Zhang
I wrote earlier: Actually, it is better changed to if (covers_almost_all_of (GB2312)) font supports traditional Chinese if (covers_almost_all_of (Big5)) font supports traditional Chinese It should be if (covers_almost_all_of (GB2312))

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 09:34:43AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: This goal is reflected in the design I outlined -- fonts are deemed suitable for a particular language when they cover a significant fraction of the codepoints commonly associated with that language. That is

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Yao Zhang
Keith Packard wrote: Actually, I could really use as many Han fonts as you have, especially if they are from different vendors and of different ages. All I really need is the fonts.cache files generated from these fonts; that holds the unicode coverage and any OS/2 table information. That

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Yao Zhang wrote: It should be if (covers_almost_all_of (GB2312)) font supports SIMPLIFIED Chinese if (covers_almost_all_of (Big5)) font supports traditional Chinese After sending my prev. message, I read this and I have to

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Keith Packard
Around 13 o'clock on Jun 29, Yao Zhang wrote: if (covers_much_of (gb18030)) font supports simplified Chinese if (covers_almost_all_of (Big5)) font supports traditional Chinese font does not support simplified Chinese For a GB18030

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Keith Packard
Around 20 o'clock on Jun 29, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: A font is suited for a given language when it covers *ALL* of the codepoints needed for that language. Yes, that's obviously true, but the problem is that I don't have tables for each language indicating the required codepoints, all I have

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Keith Packard
Around 14 o'clock on Jun 29, Yao Zhang wrote: Sure, I will install as many Chinese fonts as possible and get the fonts.cache for you. But before that, I will show you serveral lines in my fonts.cache: I'm afraid the mailers corrupted the rather long lines in those files, but given that

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 01:20:34PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: A font is suited for a given language when it covers *ALL* of the codepoints needed for that language. Yes, that's obviously true, but the problem is that I don't have tables for each language indicating the required

Re: [Fonts]Automatic 'lang' determination

2002-06-29 Thread Yu Shao
Keith Packard wrote: Around 14 o'clock on Jun 29, Yao Zhang wrote: Sure, I will install as many Chinese fonts as possible and get the fonts.cache for you. But before that, I will show you serveral lines in my fonts.cache: I'm afraid the mailers corrupted the rather long lines in those files,