[Fedora-i18n-list] proposal for a CJK font package submission

[Leon Ho]

Hi Qianqian,

Thanks for your efforts on the font and time to assist Fedora! I will be 
contacting you on details of steps of including this font.

Cheers,
Leon

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 13:27, fangq at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
> hi
>
> sorry for intrusion. let me introduce myself first, my name is Qianqian
> Fang, one of the Fedora Core users and open-source software developers.
>
> As you may know (or maybe not), Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) support
> under Linux is always a pain in the neck and I have heard enough complains
> about it for almost all Linux distributions. One of the major difficulties
> is that there is not a single "good" open-source Chinese font available:
> there are open-source True-type CJK fonts, but they have no bitmap font
> embeded as in commertial CJK fonts, the screen rendering of these fonts
> are so blurred and make it difficult to read.
>
> I (and my team) have been working on a CJK font project since last
> October, after months of hard working (our work is also based on many
> other previous works), we have developed bitmap fonts covered complete CJK
> Unified Ideographics (20,902 characters at 4 pixel sizes and two weights,
> making about 180,000 glyphs). We just announced our second release. This
> font is extremely easy to install and use, we provided both BDF/PCF
> versions. The font is developed by thousands of contributors at our wiki
> website (http://wqy.sf.net/en/ ) and is licensed under GPL. We are
> currently working on Unicode CJK extension A as well as open-source
> outline CJK fonts.
>
> I am curious if it is possible to submit this font package to Fedora
> development team for review (I don't know if this is the official way to
> do that or not), and for consideration of including it into your
> distribution. This could make CJK users' lives much easier.
>
> The latest version of this font can be downloaded from sourceforge:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192&package_id=156
>288
>
> thank you.
>
> Qianqian
>
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