Re: New IPA fonts in OBS M17N:Devel repo

At Wed, 20 May 2009 09:41:49 +0900,
Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the follow up!
Is it Qt4 or Qt3?

> 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

Interesting that you have the normal font widths in the window title.

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

I don't think it's for bugzilla because it's not in the SUSE Factory
or any official package yet.

> 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

Thanks for the pointer.
It sounds like we should postpone to replace the old one...
Let's keep it just in M17N:Devel.


Takashi
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