On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just updated several scim-related packages. They are in the > [testing] repo. The updated packages are: > > anthy > libchewing > libhangul > scim > scim-anthy > scim-chewing > scim-tables > uim > scim-uim (no update, just rebuild against uim 1.5.5) > > As I don't use these packages (I believe no dev use them either), I > could only do minimal testing. It would be nice if users of these > packages test them and report if they work properly or if there are > problems with them. > > I've also updated (in [testing] repo) the Arphic fonts: > ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming > > There are two points about these fonts: > > 1. According to upstream: > "This release contains Firefly's Bitmap fonts. The Bitmap fonts are available > for 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 pixel and currently cover Big5 and GB2312. > HKSCS is currently not supported as there are many more characters missing. > So, for Big5 and GB2312 characters the bitmap glyphs should improve the > rendering, but for all other characters, the rendering is the same like > without bitmap glyphs." > > I might be nice to get comments about someone using these fonts to see > if the ttf-fireflysung package is indeed no longer needed > (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8951). > > 2. The updated ttf-arphic-* packages in testing provide the fonts as > a TrueType Collection, i.e. the fonts come in 4 flavors (CN, HK, TW > and TW MBE), with different glyph shapes according to the preferred > shapes in each region (more info here: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Download). As a > result TeX users will encounter trouble using this font. The > following programs/libraries are known to not fully support TTC files > and can usually only use the first fontface of the TTC: > - jdk and openjdk6 > - imlib2 and applications which use imlib2. > > Again, I and probably none of the devs don't use these fonts so > feedback from users would be nice. > > Eric > Did anyone had time to test them yet? Eric
