[Pkg-fonts-devel] pkg-fonts etch goals?

[Arne Götje ( 高盛華 )]

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 20:35, Paul Wise wrote:
> CJK radicals supplement: about 20
> CJK symbols and punctuation: 15
> Katakana: U+30FF
> Enclosed CJK letters and month: about half
> CJK compatability: about a third
> CJK Unified Ideographs: this is a huge block, with about an eighth
> not defined.
> CJK compatability forms: 5
>
> --------| Mostly empty
>
> CJK Unified Ideographs
> Extension A & B, CJK Unified Ideographs supplement.

For the CJK glyphs: It is currently not necessary to have all of them (> 
70000), as only a small part of them are used regularly. The vast 
majority of those characters are seldom used. The CJK fonts in Debian 
(ttf-arphic-* for Chinese, ttf-sazanami and others for Japanese and the 
ttf-unfonts for Korean contain all necessary glyphs to display most 
standard documents (daily use characters).

However, the complete CJK support is on my Todo list for the 
ttf-arphic-{ukai|uming} packages. But it takes a lot of time and I 
won't finish it in the near future.

All blocks mentioned above will be supported by the ttf-arphic-{ukai|
uming} fonts in the future, but the missing characters are not so 
important as that life depends on them... ;)

Cheers
Arne
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