Re: Unifont and Unicode 10.0.0 Plane 0 CJK Additions

Thanks Paul!!

On Jun 11, 2017 5:31 PM, "Paul Hardy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am the maintainer of GNU Unifont.  Because Fontforge uses Unifont as a
> font of last resort, I thought I should give you advanced notice of a
> Unifont change.
>
> After consulting with several Chinese people, I have concluded that the
> most reasonable way to handle the new CJK glyphs U+9FD8..U+9FE9 (planned
> for introduction in Unicode 10.0.0) are to make them quadruple-width: 16
> pixels high by 32 pixels wide.  The biggest challenge was fitting any other
> glyph in combination with U+723E (爾) inside a 16-by-16 grid, and that glyph
> appears repeatedly in combination with other glyphs in that range.  I did
> not want to go beyond the 16-by-16 boundary.
>
> I believe that the font metric dimensions are correct in the upcoming BDF,
> PCF, and TrueType versions of Unifont for those new glyphs; at least, they
> appear to be correct in Fontforge.
>
> Once Unicode 10.0.0 is released, I will cross-check the final Unicode
> delta charts against what is already in place in the upcoming Unifont
> release, make final adjustments to Unifont 10.0.01, and release it,
> hopefully a week or so after the Unicode 10.0.0 release.
>
> Take care,
>
>
> Paul Hardy
>
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