Hi,
At Sun, 4 Feb 2001 19:53:31 -0500 (EST),
Henry Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So? This problem is *not* specific to Han Unification. Most North
> Americans cannot read the Blackletter (aka Fraktur) version of U+005A, or
> for that matter a Spencerian-calligraphy version of the same. (The
> handwriting style I was taught was Spencerian [no relation!], and *I*
> would have trouble with some of the weird uppercase forms now.)
I don't know about Blackletter, Fraktur, nor Spencerian. Are
anyone unhappy U+005A glyph in, for example, XFree86's
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-* font? Is it impossible to design a
world-readable glyph of U+005A? For Han Unification characters,
it is impossible for some characters to be designed so that all
native CJK speakers can read them.
> Then the incompetent suppliers who try to ignore the font issues will go
> out of business, and the world will be a better place. Our job is to make
> sure that Linux does *not* ignore these issues, so it can use a font that
> is appropriate to the user. It is *not* our job to re-hash whether Han
> Unification was a good idea -- that is not our decision.
I want some mechanism for Unicode ordinal text (not rich text) to
distinguish Chinese, Japanese, and Korean version of Han Unification
character. To let (non-CJK) people understand this need, I have to
explain why Japanese people are unhappy with Han Unification.
I understand the solution cannot be modification of Unicode. It is
against Unicode's policy that once determined characters will not
changed in future. Thus, I'd like you to think about non-vaporware
solution for this problem.
There are some solutions suggested so far:
- Use Japanese fonts for Japanese version of Windows
What is the mechanism to change font?
How a text file specify the font?
No mechanism, responsibility of each user? No!
- language tag
It is likely that this will be a vaporware, since
this is stateful like ISO-2022. However, this can
be a solution, if developers all over the world
would come to understand this problem.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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