Hi Qianqian, Thanks for your efforts on the font and time to assist Fedora! I will be contacting you on details of steps of including this font. Cheers, Leon On Wednesday 10 August 2005 13:27, fangq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > hi > > sorry for intrusion. let me introduce myself first, my name is Qianqian > Fang, one of the Fedora Core users and open-source software developers. > > As you may know (or maybe not), Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) support > under Linux is always a pain in the neck and I have heard enough complains > about it for almost all Linux distributions. One of the major difficulties > is that there is not a single "good" open-source Chinese font available: > there are open-source True-type CJK fonts, but they have no bitmap font > embeded as in commertial CJK fonts, the screen rendering of these fonts > are so blurred and make it difficult to read. > > I (and my team) have been working on a CJK font project since last > October, after months of hard working (our work is also based on many > other previous works), we have developed bitmap fonts covered complete CJK > Unified Ideographics (20,902 characters at 4 pixel sizes and two weights, > making about 180,000 glyphs). We just announced our second release. This > font is extremely easy to install and use, we provided both BDF/PCF > versions. The font is developed by thousands of contributors at our wiki > website (http://wqy.sf.net/en/ ) and is licensed under GPL. We are > currently working on Unicode CJK extension A as well as open-source > outline CJK fonts. > > I am curious if it is possible to submit this font package to Fedora > development team for review (I don't know if this is the official way to > do that or not), and for consideration of including it into your > distribution. This could make CJK users' lives much easier. > > The latest version of this font can be downloaded from sourceforge: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192&package_id=156 >288 > > thank you. > > Qianqian > > -- > Fedora-i18n-list mailing list > Fedora-i18n-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-i18n-list