Re: New IPA fonts in OBS M17N:Devel repo

At Wed, 20 May 2009 08:19:14 +0200,
 wrote:
> 
> 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?

OK, I could reproduce it on my machine, too.
It looks like a known problem of Qt3 regarding OTF.  A workaround is
simply convert from OTF to TTF.

Now the IPA font package on M17N:Devel repo does the conversion via
fontforge.  Could you give it at try again?


thanks,

Takashi
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