On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:42:37AM +1000, Roger So wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 05:38, Keith Packard wrote: > > Because the font does completely cover the expected encoding, it will at > > least avoid the problem of ransom-note typography where glyphs from > > several incomplete fonts are mixed together on the screen. > > Actually, a proper GB18030 font would have a superset of Big5, HKSCS and > GB2312 characters.
Just to clarify the current situation: while the GB18030 encoding covers the entire Unicode codepoints, the current GB18030 standard does not mandate or specify any characters in the "CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B", in which contains some 1651 HKSCS-2001 characters. So, with the exception of some GB18030+HKSCS fonts or SuperCJK fonts with 70000+ Han glyphs, most GB18030 fonts on the markets do not adequately cover HKSCS. Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling ThizLinux Laboratory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.thizlinux.com/ Debian Chinese Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
