fonts-thai-ttf has been abandoned!

Yuan Chao yuanchao at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 18:46:14 EDT 2008


2008/7/3 Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/2 C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org>:
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

>> (It does display correctly on joyride-2098, but the Pangram page
>> indicates that we are missing fonts for Dzongkha (language of Bhutan),
>> Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.  These fonts are in the
>> packages 'fonts-hebrew' (1M), 'fonts-japanese' (22M!), 'fonts-chinese'
>> (24M!) and 'fonts-korean' (18M!); hopefully these's a subset of the
>> japanese/chinese/korean fonts which is lighter weight!)
> Yes, but you aren't going to get away with much less than 10M each.
A newly developed font "WQY Zenhei" has a quite good CJK coverage.
(~21K glyphs) The size of its latest version is about 11M and can be
further down to ~8M if embedded bitmap fonts stripped. (useful for low
res but too small for OLPC)


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Best regards,
Yuan Chao



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