Re: Testing CJK glyphs

[Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> On 9 Nov 2023, at 8:03 pm, Caolán McNamara <caolan.mcnamara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:23 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote:
>> Just a quick question - I want to write a unit test that checks the
>> glyph advancements for CJK glyphs. 
>> 
>> Specifically, I want to test the advancements of the following text:
>> 
>> 根据10.1(37BA) Eng
>> 
>> What font comes bundled with LibreOffice that I can use?
> 
> My understanding is that we don't bundle a CJK font. I think the best
> option is to follow the pattern of:
> https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/6b178c6e88ec5a765ad2b3ccd98182286222f550
> where you can see from the little font.readme how to make a small
> testing font with just the subset of glyphs you need from (an
> appropriately licensed) CJK font for the purposes of such a test.

Thanks Caolán, that’s very helpful. 
We seem to bundle Noto Sans in extras, but not the CJK variant. Is this something we could look at including?

Chris