>>>>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:57:27 +0200, >>>>> "RS" == Robert Scheck <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: RS> I'm looking for a Unicode-friendly TTF font in Fedora and/or EPEL. At the RS> moment, we are using "Sazanami Mincho", but users from Japan told us, that RS> some of the characters would be represented wrong for Japanese, but correct RS> for Chinese and/or Taiwanese. Not really. it was based on the machine-generated and somewhat improved by the hand. but is a poor quality right. RS> In the end, we need replacements for something like Helvetica (sans-serif), RS> Times Roman (serif) and Courier (fixed) - with as many characters supported RS> as possible. It needs to be a *.ttf file, because we have to use ttf2afm(1) RS> for getting the font into our software. RS> Beside of that, that font(s) should somehow cover (if possible?) the above RS> mentioned issue with the same character in JP/CN/TW but with a slightly RS> different representation depending on the country. Is there a font which is RS> covering that? Is there maybe one (!) font which is somehow acceptable for RS> all countries, meaning Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese people - without any RS> claims by users that some characters are not perfect? "Sazanami Mincho" has RS> many characters (from what we got), but we've claiming users :( I'd personally say no because they prefer different typefaces. though Google Droid fonts may be a candidate for unified fonts. but I don't like it really. at least it's a bit far from the modern typefaces for Japanese. FWIW this efforts are came from Android project though, recently another better Japanese fonts are available there. this would means how it wasn't accepted, but anyway. RS> If it's somehow relevant, because I don't understand JP/CN/TW, the software RS> is a Enterprise Resource Planning system, that means it's used at business, RS> at organisations etc. If JP/CN/TW has any characters which are not relevant RS> to business, the font hasn't necessarily to support them then... ;-) RS> Do you have any suggestions or recommendations for a font that could fit RS> our needs? Hope to hear something else than "design your own font" by you. RS> Maybe we (Fedora) have native speakers for JP/CN/TW, who could help here? I guess it would be better not think of having only one font for all of the languages. you could pull an idea from current default fonts in Fedora. those should be comprehensively better fonts so far. RS> Greetings, RS> Robert HTH, -- Akira TAGOH
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