Re: Debian default font for Chinese display is not complete

--- Frederic Muller <fred-GQxX53Lv/[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for your email. Since I have discovered which font had those=20
> missing characters by just mere chance. It seems to be AR PL kaitiM and=
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> all the AR PL fonts I have in fact. I have no idea how KDE is assigning=
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> this font by default to display Chinese as  I didn't see its name=20
> anywhere (Didn't check text configuration file though).
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Well, do you have the CJKUnifonts fonts? I suggest removing the AR PL fon=
ts
except for AR PL ZenKai Uni and AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, since it seems that
they're Unicode fonts obtained by combining:
- AR PL KaitiM GB + AR PL KaitiM Big5 -> AR PL ZenKai Uni
- AR PL SungtiL GB + AR PL Mingti2L Big5 -> AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni
If you don't have them, get them from:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fCJKUnifonts

> What do you mean by not free for Cyberbit? I got them off the bitstream=
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> website and it was for free download I believe? What are the restrictio=
ns?
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> Actually further Googling lead me to this site which list "freely" or=20
> almost freely available Chinese font and the licensing issues. I found=20
> it quite insightful and guess might be of use to the list
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/chinesefonts/
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Yes, they're not entirely free...

> So I guess my issue with AR PL kaitiM is the fact that they are not=20
> Unicode complete. Any idea how to make them all Unicode? Has anyone=20
> experience with this process and could give me some hint?
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You would like to use CJKUnifonts I described above ;)


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