Hello Shaddy,
Thankfully, these Arphic Chinese fonts have been extended by the
community, especially Arne Goetje et al.'s effort, already packaged
for Debian as ttf-arphic-uming and ttf-arphic-ukai:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fCJKUnifonts
and more. There are continuing efforts in improving Chinese fonts
in the Free Software/Open-source Software community. Another
notable effort is here:
http://wqy.sourceforge.net/
So, in a way, ttf-arphic-uming should probably become the preferred
font package for Traditional Chinese support. It is a superset of
ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp, and more. Just "apt-get install ttf-arphic-uming"
and start enjoying! Perhaps the default settings in /etc/fonts/
need to be finetuned to let the system choose uming.ttf over bsmi00lp.ttf.
Hope this helps! :-)
Anthony
Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>Package: ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp
>Version: 2.10-6
>Severity: normal
>
>The font package is missing a true (i.e. not the fallback boxed image
>with the unicode index) representation of BIG5 character which maps to
>unicode 0x5586.
>
>Actually, this is not the only character, there are many others. This
>bug report is more of a statement on seemingly low effort being put into
>maintenance of Traditional Chinese support in Debian. And that isn't
>meant a criticism of the individuals involved. More like putting a
>mirror up to the Debian community as a whole.
>
>If, for example, the maintainer of the package wanted to do something
>about this bug report, to my understanding, there is little they can do.
>
>Isn't it normal procedure to go to prefer problems are fixed at the
>upstream?
>
>Well, it seems to me that Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. no longer care,
>perhaps even realise, that they involved themselves at some point in
>open source.
>
>I visited their web-site recently, and found the links to the free linux
>resource they listed, broken. When I emailed them about the broken
>links, a check back at the site revealed that they had removed them
>altogether.
>
>In other circumstances, when a package loses it's upstream, it becomes
>orphaned in Debian. What happens here?
>
>Is it satisfactory that, as far as I can tell, there is no possibility
>making improvements in this area of the Traditional Chinese support in
>Debian?
>
>Regards,
>Shaddy
>
>
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