On 01/23/2011 09:02 AM, William Immendorf wrote: > DJ, > > There are some better choices for fonts than the one you mentioned. In > fact, some can be replaced by superior fonts. First, let's list the > fonts that can be replaced: > > * MS Core Fonts - not free (as in freedom) because of the license, > but they came from Microsoft, so what do you expect? Instead, we > should use the Liberation font family, which are replacements for the > three most commonly used fonts in the Core Fonts collection; Arial, > Times New Roman and Courier New. If you desire, you can keep the link > to the Core Fonts, just say that they are not free as in freedom. > * Arphic and Firefly - both can be replaced by the Ukai and Uming > fonts from Debian. They are enhanced versions of the Arphic Bkai and > Bming fonts, and in fact, one of these fonts contains the Firefly > gliphs. They can be found on Debian mirror sites (their names are > ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming) > * Kochi - can be replaced by newer Sazanami fonts, also from the same > maker (efont). They are newer and don't depend on propitiatory bits, > making these fonts free as in freedom. > * Bakmuk (sic) - can be replaced by the Un fonts, which are just > generally better than the Bakmuk fonts (or what it's supposed to be > spelled like, I don't care.) > > And as for URLs: > > Liberation: https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ > Ukai and Uming: > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-arphic-{ukai,uming}/ > (replace ftp.us.debian.org with your favorite Debian mirror) > Sazanami: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/efont/files/?release_id=10087#10087 > Unfonts: http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/ > > I hope this will help. William, thanks for the suggestions, they certainly do help. I actually install Uming and Sazanami myself, however, being that I do not speak or read those languages, I am incapable of judging how much better they are. The list currently in the book is approximately 6 years old now and was committed by Alexander Patrakov, our (former?) resident expert of all things i18n. If you would like to try your hand at a patch against the new page, I would be happy to commit it for you. If not, I'll try and get to it within the next couple of days (when I put the page back).
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