[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#709805: Bug#709805: Bug#709805: task-chinese-t: missing glyphs in font set(s)

[Kess Vargavind]

And—it seems the not too distant future is already here, partly.

ㆺ of the extended Bopomofo range was already added in a new version of
fonts-hanazono (20130222-1).

/Kess


2013/5/28 Kess Vargavind <vargavind at gmail.com>

> Hello Toni (et al.),
>
> 𠀀 is available in, at least, the font HanaMinA [1] and
> 𠀅 is available in, at least, fonts such as HanaMinB [1] and IPAmjMincho
> [2].
>
> [1] fonts-hanazono
> [2] fonts-ipamj-mincho
>
> As for the three characters in the “Bopomofo extended” range, they were
> added
> in Unicode version 6.0, and support for them will probably come in the not
> too
> distant future. Lately we have had extremely good CJK coverage, rather
> fast.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kess
>
>
> 2013/5/28 john knightley <john.knightley at gmail.com>
>
>> Dear Toni and others,
>>
>> there are 75 thousand Chinese characters in Unicode, hence one ttf file
>> which has a limit of 256x256 glyphs can not contain all Chinese characters,
>> at least two ttf font files are required. Some packages contain 2 ttf files
>> often labelled A and B one from Chinese characters in the BMP (Basic
>> Multilingual Plane) and another for those in SIP (Supplementary Ideographic
>> Plane) . The example above is from SIP.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Toni Mueller <support at oeko.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Package: fonts-moe-standard-kai
>>> Version: 20120530-1
>>> Severity: minor
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> this bug report may be relevant to antother font packages, but I don't
>>> know which one. Please reassign as you deem appropriate.
>>>
>>> In the Chinese font packages, some glyphs seem to be missing. You can
>>> see the problem on this web page:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuyin
>>>
>>> For me, these characters don't display:
>>>
>>> 1. In the table "Rhymes & Medials", there is this text:
>>>
>>>    "From the obsolete character 𠀀 hē, ..."
>>>
>>>    You can see that the glyph for the character after "character" is
>>>    missing.
>>>
>>>    Three rows down, the same problem occurs in this text:
>>>
>>>    "From 𠀅 hài, bronze form of 亥"
>>>
>>> 2. Further down, just above the "See also" section, there is a table
>>> titled "Bopomofo Extended", where the last three glyphs are missing.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have these fonts installed:
>>>
>>> fonts-arphic-bkai00mp
>>> fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
>>> fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp
>>> fonts-arphic-gkai00mp
>>> fonts-arphic-ukai
>>> fonts-arphic-uming
>>> fonts-cwtex-docs
>>> fonts-cwtex-fs
>>> fonts-cwtex-heib
>>> fonts-cwtex-kai
>>> fonts-cwtex-ming
>>> fonts-cwtex-yen
>>> fonts-droid
>>> fonts-sil-nuosusil
>>> emacs-intl-fonts
>>> xfonts-intl-chinese
>>> xfonts-intl-chinese-big
>>> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp
>>> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp
>>> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp
>>> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp
>>> texlive-metapost
>>> ttf-wqy-microhei
>>> ttf-wqy-zenhei
>>> xfonts-wqy
>>> fonts-moe-standard-kai
>>> fonts-moe-standard-song
>>> fonts-cns11643-kai
>>> fonts-cns11643-sung
>>> hbf-cns40-5
>>> hbf-cns40-4
>>> hbf-cns40-7
>>> hbf-cns40-6
>>> hbf-cns40-1
>>> hbf-cns40-3
>>> hbf-cns40-2
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> --Toni++
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- System Information:
>>> Debian Release: 7.0
>>>   APT prefers stable
>>>   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1,
>>> 'experimental')
>>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>>> Foreign Architectures: i386
>>>
>>> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>>> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>>
>>> Versions of packages task-chinese-t depends on:
>>> ii  tasksel  3.14+nmu2
>>>
>>> Versions of packages task-chinese-t recommends:
>>> ii  zhcon  1:0.2.6-10
>>>
>>> task-chinese-t suggests no packages.
>>>
>>> -- no debconf information
>>>
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