Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > At Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:19:21 +0000, > Markus Kuhn wrote: > >> Hardly anyone needs full Unicode. If all you are interested in are >> European scripts and symbols for instance, then the 3 kilocharacters of >> the Unicode subset MES-3 are more than good enough for your needs, and >> the XFree86 standard xterm fonts 6x13, 8x13, 9x15, 9x18, 10x20 have >> covered MES-3 for over a year now and are widely used. > > It is true that hardly anyonw needs full Unicode. However, it is > different from people to people which subset of Unicode they need. > For example, as you said, MES-3 would be a good subset for European > people. People from other countries needs other subsets. > > Since XFree86 is a single distribution for the whole world, it should > satisfy needs for people all over the world. > > >> People who can read CJK glyphs have used larger font sizes so far and >> will continue to do so in the future. > > True. Japanese people like 7x14 + 14x14 fonts and Korean and Chinese > people like 8x16 + 16x16 fonts. > > XTerm has used 6x13 font as default (because "fixed" font was 6x13). > Thus, it is reasonable way to have 12x13 font so that XTerm with the > default setting can display as many characters as possible (including > CJK scripts). I think it is not too small for CJK glyphs because > there are small (of course not so beautiful) fonts, for example > 10x10 and 12x12, for Japanese. > > BTW, did you now /efont/ project > http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/index.html > http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/unicode/index.html > which has 10, 12, 14, 16, and 24 pixels Unicode fonts ? > The web page has a table of subsets these fonts cover. > Though I am not taking part in the project, I hope thse fonts > will be used widely like ETL intlfonts. > > --- > Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ > "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ >
-- Mike Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
