Hi,
At Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:59:47 -0500,
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about ttf-xtt-wadalab-gothic and ttf-xtt-watanabe-mincho in
> Debian? Those should both be scalable.
Well, yes, it is scalable Japanese fonts. However, it was automatically
converted from bitmap fonts using a software. Thus, quality is not
very good even for screen purpose (bad for print purpose).
> A font with ideographs takes a lot longer to create than one without.
Sure. This is why we don't have enough Japanese fonts.
> Typefaces don't usually have a clear correspondence between scripts.
Agreed.
> 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.
Though it is not so big as 10-20 MB, I agree disk space would be
a problem.
I don't care the internal mechanism. However, I think future software
should be able to display Ideogram (and any other characters) in UTF-8
locale, whatever font (times, helvetica, ...) the users choose.
It is one solution that all XFree86 fonts will have Ideogram.
However, I don't stick to this solution. Usability and conveniency
(i.e., softwares cannot fail to display Japanese) is my focus.
> 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.
For mail: My mail client cannot read Unicode mail. Though I receive
tens of Japanese mails everyday from native Japanese speakers, I have
never received a Unicode mail. Even if I use Unicode-enabled mail
client, I can easily check the header of the mails.
For web: Mozilla and Internet Explorer has "encoding" menu item.
And more, Internet Explorer's "view source" menu item invokes
notepad or wordpad which cannot handle Unicode text.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/
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