Ar 16 Mar 2001, ag 18:13 scríobh Stephen Cremin
fán ábhar "Mac OSX + 17,500 Kanji":
> Forgive me for being so insular,
> but what is the situation in the non-Mac world? How many characters can the
> typical Japanese-enabled UNIX or IBM compatible handle?
>
> I understand that different fonts may not render all codepoints, but what is
> typical for a pre-installed Japanese user's system in the non Mac-world?
This is not strictly speaking an answer to your question as I don't have a
typical pre-installed Japanese Windows system (which of the many recent
version of Windows is typical anyway?). Some of these fonts are pre-
installed on particular language varieties of Windows and some come with
language enabling kits for Internet Exporer or with some other product. Only
glyph-counts are given (not the number of ideographs), but it should give you
an idea anyway. This information is from...
Alan Wood's Unicode Resources - Windows Fonts that Support Unicode
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html
Chinese (Simplified) Fonts
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MS Hei - 26,272 glyphs in version 1.00
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; Hiragana; Katakata; Bopomofo; CJK Unified
Ideographs
Availability: Part of Chinese (Simplified) Language Support for Internet
Explorer 5 - select Windows Update on the IE 5 Tools menu
MS Song - 26,304 glyphs in version 1.00
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; Hiragana; Katakata; Bopomofo, CJK Unified
Ideographs
Availability: Part of Chinese (Simplified) Language Support for Internet
Explorer 5 - select Windows Update on the IE 5 Tools menu
SimSun - 22,141 glyphs in version 2.10
This font file is around 10.0 MB, and using it can slow down your computer.
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; Latin-1 Supplement; Hiragana; Katakata;
Bopomofo, CJK Unified Ideographs
Availability: Supplied with Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000
Arial Unicode MS, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK and Code2000 can
also display Simplified Chinese
Chinese (Traditional) Fonts
===========================
MingLiU - 18,362 glyphs in version 2.00 second release
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; General Punctuation; Box Drawing; Block
Elements; CJK Symbols and Punctuation; Bopomofo; CJK Unified Ideographs; CJK
Compatibility Ideographs; CJK Compatibility Forms; Small Form Variants;
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Availability: Part of Chinese (Traditional) Language Support for Internet
Explorer 5 - select Windows Update on the IE 5 Tools menu
PMingLiU - 22,550 glyphs in Version 3.00
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; Latin-1 Supplement; Hiragana; Katakana;
Bopomofo; Kanbun; CJK Unified Ideographs; CJK Compatibility Forms; Small Form
Variants; Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Availability: Supplied with Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000
Arial Unicode MS, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK and Code2000 can
also display Traditional Chinese
Japanese Fonts
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MS Gothic - 13,104 glyphs in version 2.00
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; CJK Symbols and Punctuation; Hiragana;
Katakana; CJK Unified Ideographs; Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Availability: Part of Japanese Language Support for Internet Explorer 5 -
select Windows Update on the IE 5 Tools menu
MS Mincho - 17,807 glyphs in version 2.30
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; Latin-1 Supplement; Latin Extended-A; Latin
Extended-B; IPA Extensions; Spacing Modifier Letters; Greek; Cyrillic; Latin
Extended Additional; General Punctuation; Superscripts and Subscripts;
Currency Symbols; Letterlike Symbols; Number Forms; Arrows; Mathematical O
Availability: Supplied with Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000
Arial Unicode MS, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK and Code2000 can
also display Japanese
Korean Fonts
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Batang - 39,680 glyphs in version 2.00
This font file is around 14.8 MB, and using it can slow down your computer.
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; Latin-1 Supplement; Latin Extended-A; Latin
Extended-B; Spacing Modifier Letters; Greek; Cyrillic; Hangul Jamo; Latin
Extended Additional; General Punctuation; Superscripts and Subscripts;
Currency Symbols; Letterlike Symbols; Number Forms; Arrows; Mathematical Oper
Availability: Supplied with Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000
Gulim Che - 20,792 glyphs in version 1.00
Platforms: Windows
Unicode ranges: Basic Latin; Latin-1 Supplement; Latin Extended-A; Spacing
Modifier Letters; Greek; Cyrillic; General Punctuation; Superscripts and
Subscripts; Currency Symbols; Letterlike Symbols; Number Forms; Arrows;
Mathematical Operators; Miscellaneous Technical; Enclosed Alphanumerics; Bo
Availability: Part of Korean Language Support for Internet Explorer 5 -
select Windows Update on the IE 5 Tools menu
Arial Unicode MS, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK and Code2000 can
also display Korean
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