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

[Toni Mueller]

Hi Kess,

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 08:42:18AM +0200, Kess Vargavind wrote:
> 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

great - I'll install them right away. Then, the biggest problem seems to
be that these fonts are not mentioned as being relevant for Chinese, but
only for Japanese. May I suggest that "apt-cache search chinese" would
turn these up, too?

> 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.

Good to hear! :)


Kind regards,
--Toni++