I inadvertently replied off-list. Below is my attempt to fix that with the reply from "home user" and my response. On 2020-02-29 06:04, home user wrote: > On 2/28/20 2:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-02-29 05:15, home user wrote: >>> I agree with Ed that the AR PL UKai... fonts include the Roman fonts. In the Gnome terminal (and thus vim), I use the one font for Chinese, Roman, punctuation, and special characters (vowels with marks over them, for pinyin). I don't think there's a way to mix the fonts. One pleasant surprise is that though the font is set to AR PL UKai CN Book (for "simplified Chinese), the terminal seems to properly handle "traditional" Chinese (the Taiwan script); the correct font for that should be AR PL UKai TW Book. It's correctly handling the mix of both the "simplified" Chinese and the "traditional" Chinese in the same file and even in the same line. >> >> There is no way to mix fonts in a terminal. > > My apologies for my bad wording. I did know that. > >> The terminal is *not* handling anything when it comes to traditional v.s. simplified. >> >> The glyphs are different and thus the Unicode is different. For example.... >> >> 內 U+5167 UTF-8: 0xE5 0x85 0xA7 Traditional >> 内 U+5185 UTF-8: 0xE5 0x86 0x85 Simplified >> >> The font has included within it glyphs for both traditional and simplified. The terminal has no involvement. > > Thank-you for the correction. So why are there two separate AR PL UKai fonts - the CN and the TW? What *is* the difference? Well, that would require a comparison of the fonts. However, I do know that there are terms/characters used and created in Taiwan which are not used in the PRC. So, it is possible that the TW font contains them and the CN not. The reverse is also possibly true. FWIW, the same holds true for HK. But, I, for one won't be doing the comparison. :-) -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
