On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 16:12 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > wqy-microhei-fonts is very effective, but unfortunately it only covers > Simplified Chinese and the syllabic parts of Japanese and Korean, not the > Traditional Chinese, Japanese or Korean renderings of the CJK Unified > Ideographs.) AIUI, this means it really only works for simplified Chinese users (which means, approximately, mainland China; other Chinese-speaking territories tend to use traditional Chinese). Simplified Chinese is a subset of traditional Chinese, so many characters needed to render TC properly will be missing entirely from it. Korean is technically related but in practice is really an entirely different character set; AIUI being able to read Korean does not mean you'd be able to read the 'equivalent' Chinese characters at all. You couldn't just render a Korean text with Chinese ideographs in place of the Korean ones and expect it to be at all OK for Korean readers. Japanese ideographs are a subset of traditional Chinese too, but a *different* subset. AIUI it's a smaller subset but includes some characters that simplified Chinese doesn't include, so a simplified Chinese font would again be missing some needed characters for full Japanese rendering. (Note on 'syllabic' vs. 'ideographic': Japanese and Korean have both alphabet(s) for phonetic/syllabic rendering of words, like Latin, and much larger alphabets of ideographic characters. We don't need to go into the reasons for this or when one is used vs. the others; all that's important is that any practical use of written Japanese and Korean is going to involve the ideographic characters, so a font which doesn't cover the ideographic characters is entirely insufficient). So calling it a 'CJK' font is, well, stretching the point quite a lot. ;) It's really a mainland Chinese font, nothing more. Again, AIUI; it would really be best to speak to the experts. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
