On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Firmicus <Firmicus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Bélanger a écrit : >> 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 >> >> > I just tested scim to input Chinese with pinyin method and it works > fine. I don't use the other scim-related pkgs. I have tested the Arphic > fonts rather superficially, but at first sight they are just ok (tested > in gedit and with xetex). > > NB: These TTC fonts won't be a problem for XeTeX users (xetex is part of > texlive-core), and other TeX users actually use the Postscript versions > of the same fonts that come with texlive-lang-cjk. > > F > I received other testers' reports by personnal email or the bug tracker (there was a couple of very minor bugs that were fixed last week: a scim problem with java clients and gnome-panel is now an optdepends for uim) and everything seems to be working fine. I've just moved the packages in extra. If there are problems, submit a bug report. Thanks to all the testers.
