G'day, [Tomohiro KUBOTA (Re: [I18n]Call for testers: luit in XFree86 CVS) writes:] >> And, there exist JIS X 0213 fonts available. You can download it >> from a famous freeware/shareware site "vector" >> (http://www.vector.co.jp). If you are using Debian, install >> xfonts-kappa20 and you can use JIS X 0213 fonts.
I've had a BDF of JISX0213 for some time, and have played with a kterm that can handle it. It is really in the Whinedoze arena that I can't see the font support coming in a hurry. NT deriviatives have made it a dead-end for font developments. >> > Whether as Kubota-san suggests JIS X 0213 will be useful in the future >> > remains to be seen. My own humble opinion is that there appears to be >> > little effort being put into developing fonts around the JIS X 0208 + >> > JIS X 0213 combination (you can't have JIS X 0213 in isolation, as it is >> > an extension). I think the real focus is on Unicode. >> >> It is wrong. JIS X 0213 is a replacement of JIS X 0208. I think we can get into serious hair-splitting here. My copy of JIS X 0213 describes itself as "$B3HD%4A;z=89g(B" (enlargement or extension kanji set), and the text inside makes it pretty clear that it it is in addition to JIS X 0208. I noted the new "JIS Kanji Dictionary" of which I saw some proofs in Tokyo earlier this year is described as covering JIS X 0208 and JIS X 0213. (Poor old JIS X 0212 is forgotten.) >> Strictly speaking, >> it is not a superset of JIS X 0208, because unification rule has changed >> for dozens of characters. For example, do you know there are two versions >> of glyph of "$B9b(B" (height)? They are so-lcalled "Hashigo-taka" and >> "Kuchi-taka". These two characters are unified (and thus share one >> codepoint) in JIS X 0208 but they are treated as different characters >> (and thus have separate codepoints) in JIS X 0213. I think there were a total of 56 kanji "dis-unified" in this way. >> Except for such a few tens of characters, JIS X 0213 includes all >> characters of JIS X 0208. Thus, JIS X 0213 is virtually a superset >> of JIS X 0208. Certainly if you set out to use JIS X 0213 you really have to run with a a single set combining the characters defined in both JIS X 0208 and JIS X 0213, which is what the existing font files do. My hope and belief is that Unicode implementations will consign all these legacy standards and codings to the history books. Cheers Jim -- Jim Breen [[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/] Computer Science & Software Engineering, Tel: +61 3 9905 3298 P.O Box 26, Monash University, Fax: +61 3 9905 5146 Clayton VIC 3800, Australia $B%8%`!&%V%j!<%s(B@$B%b%J%7%eBg3X(B -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
