Re: Big question: CJK font support in systems and applications

Dear Ken, thank you for your reply. This sheds some light onto what I've discovered so far. Especially the information that CID font 0 won't work on Windows NT/2000! This was actually unclear to me. Can you please confirm which latest Windows ATM versions for which Windows systems do support

Re: Opentype support under Liunx

What exactly do you need? With FreeType 1.x comes support for OpenType GSUB and GPOS tables (recently updated to cover OpenType version 1.3): I'm studying ways to provide Linux with unicode-compliant Myanmar character fonts. Mark Leisure use .bdf format to enable to enter unicode values

Re: Opentype support under Liunx

At 04:26 PM 8/17/01 -0700, Brian Stell wrote: There are various uses of TrueType and its feature in Linux systems. To my knowledge no Linux app currently uses all the OpenType features; eg: the GPOS table. Thanks for the info. (of course motivated individuals could go to google and search for

Re: Transcriptions of Unicode

I happened upon a passage bolstering Mario's point that the English pronunciation of long U (as yoo, /ju/) does derive from it's being the closest pronunciation that the English could make to the French pronunciation of U (as /y/). That passage is in Honni soit qui mal y pense : L'incroyable

Re: Opentype support under Liunx

I'm studying ways to provide Linux with unicode-compliant Myanmar character fonts. Mark Leisure use .bdf format to enable to enter unicode values easily for some Indic fonts. With reference to that, I did .bdf !!! How did you do it? With two preprocessors? The first reorders the input

Re: Opentype support under Liunx

Thank you for your explanation. Unix needs some bdf fonts if you want to use X terminal emulators (e.g. xterm). Unix has much better support for bitmapped fonts than Windows does, now doubtless about it. Thanx. and there's also no working scaled font editors for Unix (that I've ever heard