On Friday 04 October 2002 6:51 pm, Edward H Trager wrote: [...] | > | > Again, you are overestimating the amount of time available for such a | > project. | | I agree that it won't happen overnight. However, wouldn't it be nice to | eliminate the problem of always having to search for fonts to support some | foreign script or subset of Unicode that's not present on your system? | Just a week or two ago, a scientific publisher on the Unicode.org mailing | list expressed that lack of adequate coverage in fonts is a continuing | difficulty for their business -- and they are a big outfit which can
Font of very good quality are available from Adobe and Linotype. But those fonts cost money, for sure. So I think that "scientific publisher" doesn's tell the truth to you/to the list. Let's also clarify a few things here. Do you speak about CJK fonts, or about Latin+Greek+Cyrillic fonts, right? There are some rather good fonts available *for free* for Latin+Greek+Cyrillic alphabet. And I am working on set of my own fonts (Latin+Cyrillic, Greek can follow, as it's not extremly difficult to add if you have already Cyrillic glyphs) But, frankly, I do not care about Chineese/Korean/Japaneese glyphs. If someone from those countries is interested - he should tsrt to working on them. But so far we have a very few subscribers (on <ft-devel> ML, or on several other mailing lits I am subscribed to) from China/Japan/Korea. And AFAIK none of those develops free fonts (but some develop commercial ones) | afford the time and money to invest in font and unicode-enabled software. | I'm sure that the Software Libre community can, and has a deep vested | interest in, solving this problem within the next 5 years ... | | > > And presumably FreeType2 will have, or acquire, the smarts for | > > rendering the Arabic and Indic scripts properly. I am wondering *how important* those Arabic and Indic scripts? While there is a certan number of people living in those countries, I doubt that they have a lot of computers, and nuymbe rof *Linux* users from that number is quaestionable, too. And when those things happen to change - we will see some people willing to contribute to free fonts for those languages. But this won't happen tomorrow... | | _______________________________________________ | Devel mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.freetype.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Cheers, -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
