David Starner wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:26:36AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > 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.
I don't think we need an all-in-one monolithic font, either.
Even if a font does include "ideographs", it still makes sense to
include only a meaningful subset of them, whether that is
dictated by frequency lists, legacy character sets, style of the font,
language, country, or something else.
>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.
They can be huge, but usually not as bad as 10-20 megs. e.g.,
the "MS Hei" (mshei.ttf) and "MS Song" (mssong.ttf) fonts include
all 20,902 of the URO, plus some other characters, but are only
1.9 and 2.6 megs, respectively. I'd say 2-6 megs each is a more
reasonable estimate for a typical CJK-only TrueType font; of
course, there are some exceptions, especially when you add
other things, such as the 13.4 meg "Bitstream Cyberbit"
(cyberbit.ttf) font, which covers part of Unicode 1.1, and the 24.1
meg "Arial Unicode MS" (arialuni.ttf), which claims to cover all of
Unicode 2.1.
Of course, your basic point about large file sizes still stands.
Thomas Chan
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