On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:26:36AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> We don't have enough even local fonts. For Japanese, I know some
> people are working on this field. We don't have Japanese fonts
> with bold, italic, and so on. And more, we don't have Japanese fonts
> for good number of sizes. We also don't have scalable font.
What about ttf-xtt-wadalab-gothic and ttf-xtt-watanabe-mincho in
Debian? Those should both be scalable.
> I imagine it would be nice if all XFree86
> fixed fonts have corresponding doublewidth fonts and all XFree86
> proportional fonts include Ideogram.
I don't think all XFree86 proportional fonts including ideographs
is either likely or desirable. A font with ideographs takes a lot
longer to create than one without. Typefaces don't usually have
a clear correspondence between scripts. Lastly, most fonts with
ideographs are huge - 10-20 MB's, compared to the 300 KB a font
that everything but the ideographs takes up.
>
> Since I live in Japan, use Windows, write and read Japanese text,
> and exchange text data with Japanese people everyday, then I will
> easily notice if Unicode will become popular in, at least, Japan.
> However, I have never received Unicode text file nor I have never
> read Unicode web page (except for experimental purpose of Unicode
> itself). Internal usage? I don't care, as a user.
How would you know if you recieved a Unicode mail message or read a
Unicode web page? Most decent mail clients and web browsers (and
Windows can claim those) aren't going to give any hint that you
recieved a Unicode file rather than a SJIS file - it will just
convert it to whatever encoding is convienent (probably Unicode,
on Windows) and display it.
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