Re: [Fonts] [I18n] language tags in fontconfig

2002-07-07 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
Keith Packard wrote: I got the European coverage information from http://www.everytype.com/alphabets I can't find www.everytype.com in the DNS, is that a typo ? I'm curious because I can't understand the differences between xc/lib/fontconfig/fc-lang/en.orth and

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-07 Thread Roger So
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 13:34, Keith Packard wrote: My plan is to have fonts advertise the complete set of languages that they cover, and then to allow them to further distinguish languages with country codes as needed (zh-TW vs zh-CN). Now matching can take place using the language tags;

Re: [Fonts] [I18n] language tags in fontconfig

2002-07-07 Thread David Starner
At 10:34 AM 7/7/02 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Keith Packard wrote: I got the European coverage information from http://www.everytype.com/alphabets I can't find www.everytype.com in the DNS, is that a typo ? Try http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/index.html I'm curious

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-07 Thread Keith Packard
Around 23 o'clock on Jul 7, Roger So wrote: Certainly; but have you considered the case that zh-HK and zh-MO users prefer zh-TW fonts over zh-CN fonts, and vice versa for zh-SG? (What other Chinese-speaking regions are there... perhaps zh-MY?) Yes, each language-country pair may specify

Re: [Fonts] [I18n] language tags in fontconfig

2002-07-07 Thread Keith Packard
Around 11 o'clock on Jul 7, David Starner wrote: My question here is, since it's clear that fr.orth was written with an eye to supporting Latin-1 fonts, why wasn't en.orth written to support ASCII fonts? I have quite a few fonts that were made for English use and only cover ASCII, and using

[Fonts]Re: [I18n]language tags in fontconfig

2002-07-07 Thread David Starner
These aren't that useful, but vo (Volapük): a ä b c d e f g h i j k i m n o ö p r s t u ü v x y z. 0041-0050 0052-0056 0058-005A 0061-0070 0072-0076 0078-007A 00C4 00D6 00DC 00E4 00F6 00FC Punctuation (not listed for Dutch?) is the same as German. As the estimates I've read list maybe 10

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-07 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
Roger So wrote: And of course, many fonts from China now cover most characters defined in GB18030, which means if using coverage tables, these fonts will appear to support both zh-CN and zh-TW... Why appear to ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL

Re: [Fonts] [I18n] language tags in fontconfig

2002-07-07 Thread David Starner
At 11:46 AM 7/7/02 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: That's a fine question; I did prune the non-Latin1 glyphs from fr.orth to match existing Latin1 fonts, but I left the non-ASCII glyphs in the coverage because I have no ASCII-only fonts and didn't realize there still were some in the wild. I suppose

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-07 Thread Keith Packard
Around 6 o'clock on Jul 8, Roger So wrote: Actually, if the font is a proper certified GB18030 font, then simplified characters will have simplified glyphs, and traditional characters traditional glyphs. (Han unification didn't unify simplified and traditional characters, fortunately [or

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-07 Thread Leon Ho
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Keith Packard wrote: The question is whether we should mark certified GB18030 fonts as suitable for zh-TW as well as zh-CN. I have the GB18030 varient of SimSun here in TrueType and it does not have the traditional Chinese codePageRange bit set, but does cover the

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-07 Thread Edward Lee
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002, Keith Packard wrote: Actually, if the font is a proper certified GB18030 font, then simplified characters will have simplified glyphs, and traditional characters traditional glyphs. (Han unification didn't unify simplified and traditional characters, fortunately [or

Re: [I18n]Unicode coverage for languages

2002-07-07 Thread Keith Packard
Around 12 o'clock on Jul 8, Edward Lee wrote: The question is whether we should mark certified GB18030 fonts as suitable for zh-TW as well as zh-CN. I have the GB18030 varient of SimSun here in TrueType and it does not have the traditional Chinese codePageRange bit set, but does