Eric Bélanger a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've just updated several scim-related packages. They are in the >> [testing] repo. The updated packages are: >> >> anthy >> libchewing >> libhangul >> scim >> scim-anthy >> scim-chewing >> scim-tables >> uim >> scim-uim (no update, just rebuild against uim 1.5.5) >> >> As I don't use these packages (I believe no dev use them either), I >> could only do minimal testing. It would be nice if users of these >> packages test them and report if they work properly or if there are >> problems with them. >> >> I've also updated (in [testing] repo) the Arphic fonts: >> ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming >> >> There are two points about these fonts: >> >> 1. According to upstream: >> "This release contains Firefly's Bitmap fonts. The Bitmap fonts are available >> for 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 pixel and currently cover Big5 and GB2312. >> HKSCS is currently not supported as there are many more characters missing. >> So, for Big5 and GB2312 characters the bitmap glyphs should improve the >> rendering, but for all other characters, the rendering is the same like >> without bitmap glyphs." >> >> I might be nice to get comments about someone using these fonts to see >> if the ttf-fireflysung package is indeed no longer needed >> (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8951). >> >> 2. The updated ttf-arphic-* packages in testing provide the fonts as >> a TrueType Collection, i.e. the fonts come in 4 flavors (CN, HK, TW >> and TW MBE), with different glyph shapes according to the preferred >> shapes in each region (more info here: >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Download). As a >> result TeX users will encounter trouble using this font. The >> following programs/libraries are known to not fully support TTC files >> and can usually only use the first fontface of the TTC: >> - jdk and openjdk6 >> - imlib2 and applications which use imlib2. >> >> Again, I and probably none of the devs don't use these fonts so >> feedback from users would be nice. >> >> Eric >> >> > > Did anyone had time to test them yet? > > Eric > > I just tested scim to input Chinese with pinyin method and it works fine. I don't use the other scim-related pkgs. I have tested the Arphic fonts rather superficially, but at first sight they are just ok (tested in gedit and with xetex).
NB: These TTC fonts won't be a problem for XeTeX users (xetex is part of texlive-core), and other TeX users actually use the Postscript versions of the same fonts that come with texlive-lang-cjk. F
