Re: New IPA fonts in OBS M17N:Devel repo

Takashi Iwai wrote:

> I created packages for IPA fonts on OBS M17N:Devel repo (it's also a
> new sub-project) for testing.
> 
> It's based on the new IPA fonts with a new, better license.
> The major differences are:
>  - JIS X 0213:2004 compliant
>  - All fonts are OTF instead of TTF
>  - IPAUIGothic is dropped
> 
> It seems working fine on my systems, but any further tests would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Suppose the packages work fine, any objections to replace the package
> on FACTORY with this?

Thanks, Iwai-san.

The *new* IPA fonts have a known problem: in Qt applications, alphabets
are displayed as Zenkaku - full-width characters. I installed these
packages on my openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 box and confirmed the problem on
KDE4 desktop.

Here are some examples:

http://geeko.homelinux.org:20080/opensuse/m17n/yast2.jpg
http://geeko.homelinux.org:20080/opensuse/m17n/kpowersave.jpg
http://geeko.homelinux.org:20080/opensuse/m17n/thunderbird_pgp_signature_prompt.jpg

AFAIK, this problem has been reported to the upstream - IPA - already.
However, should we report this problem to our bugzilla ?

In addition, you can find some other informations related this new IPA
fonts in the blog entry, which written by one of Ubuntu Japanese Team
members. (Sorry, the article is only in Japanese.)
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/ikunya/e/798dabe5e4c85a9806530e4280694ac1

Best,

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