Re: Asian language fonts?

[Allen Lin]

The URL ftp://linux.tmtc.edu.tw/pub/arphic/
given in http://lwn.net/1999/1007/a/arphic.html
does not exist.  Is there any other place to get the fonts?

- Allen H. Lin  (not quite Asok)
  Programming Intern
  Quicksilver Software Inc.
  (949)474-2150 x56

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----- Original Message -----
From: Owen Taylor <address@hidden>
To: Allen Lin <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: Asian language fonts?


>
> "Allen Lin" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Anyone know where I can get some Asian language truetype fonts which
don't
> > need to be run through an interpreter?  I just want to test their
rendering.
> > Is there some already established method to do this?
>
> For Chinese, you can try the Arphic fonts:
>
>  http://lwn.net/1999/1007/a/arphic.html
>
> (I'm not sure what you mean by "run through an interpreter". These
>  are normal TT fonts, with hinting.)
>
> > Side Note: The game I'm working on will eventually be ported into
Chinese
> > and Japanese.  Are the Asian language errors in the auto-hinter
something I
> > should be concerned about?
>
> I'd guess that it will eventually be extended to deal with
> Asian language fonts. Proper hinting for Asian language fonts is
> not more difficult to deal with than for Western fonts - it's
> just different.
>
> (If you try the auto-hinter on the Arphic fonts, you'll see
> that it, indeed, does not work acceptably currently.)
>
> Regards,
>                                          Owen