installing more fonts by default for better international coverage

[Jens Petersen]

Hi Qianqian,

Thanks for your mail.

Qianqian Fang さんは書きました:
> it is a great news for better font support on Fedora. I am curious if
> it is possible to consider wqy-bitmap-fonts as the default desktop font
> for Chinese locales? the bitmap glyphs were continuously improved
> in the past ~3 years based on the embedded bitmaps in fonts-chinese
> and the wqy-bitmapfont was widely used by simplified Chinese users.

I think it is certainly worth considering.  One way to get more input on 
this might be to run a user survey say asking the preferred default 
fonts for each language.

BTW it so happens that currently we are working to move cjkunifonts and 
taipei-fonts out of fonts-chinese into separate packages: so now is a 
good time to start discussing this.

> also, WenQuanYi Project plans to release a dual-width bitmap font 
> similar to GNU
> Unifont, by merging about 28,000 16x16 new Chinese glyphs
> with the latest release of Unifont (the Chinese glyphs in unifont is
> neither complete nor optimized). The new font will cover about 46000
> unicode code points and serve as a basic multi-lingual support (such
> as in installer) and system font fall-back.

Very nice. :)

> we just put out a new GPL Chinese font, Zen Hei, for public testing.
> This is a Hei Ti style (Gothic in Japanese or Dotum in Korean)
> Chinese font, servers for general purpose Chinese display and
> printing. Current, it has 20194 Chinese characters (or ~32000 glyphs
> if include Hangul) and covers zh_cn/sg/tw/hk/mo locales. The file
> is reasonably small including about 100,000 fine-tuned embedded
> bitmap glyphs. The beta version can be downloaded at
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192&package_id=242056 

Ok great, thank you for that too - we would certainly try to take a look 
at those.  Are you planning to package it for Fedora when it is 
released? :-)

Jens