Re: Unicode is optimal for Chinese/Japanese multilingual texts

[Jungshik Shin]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Thomas Chan wrote:

> Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:

> > 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 exactly would you need bold and/or italic versions of in a
> "Japanese font"?  Perhaps Latin and Cyrillic, but what else?
> Surely you are not saying that you need bold and italic versions of
> kanji and kana.

  I understand your positon  on 'italic' Japanese font but why not
'bold'?  Actually, X-TT (ttf rendering engine included in XF86 4.0.x)
makes it possible to produce arbitrary combination of 'italic', 'bold'
etc from a single ttf by editing fonts.dir file.

   Jungshik Shin

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