installing more fonts by default for better international coverage

Jens Petersen petersen at redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 07:28:34 UTC 2007


Qianqian Fang さんは書きました:
> I started the WenQuanYi project in 2004 for making better fonts for 
> Chinese, Japanese and Korean users. It is now becoming arguably the largest
> collaborative open-source font development project. In the past 3 years,
> we have completed drawing over 40,000 Chinese bitmap glyphs from
> scratch and improved 30,000~40,000 existing Chinese glyphs.
> Now we have full coverage of CJK Unified Ideographics (U4E00-U9FA5,
> 20,902 char.) and CJK Unified Ideographics Extension A (U3400~U4DB5,
> 6,582 characters) at 8,9,10,11,12,14pt, for on-screen display of Chinese
> characters.

Yes, it is a really great achievement!  And as you write a very good 
example of free open peer-based development. :-)

> There has been thousands of volunteers participated our font
> development via our wiki website. I think it is quite meaningful
> to put forth these works and make real impact to high-quality
> international support for Linux community. I am also glad to be
> involved for continuously improving these works together
> with our developer teams and share with you our passion and
> creativities.

It is great we have wqy-bitmap-fonts included in Fedora thanks to you.
I certainly hope to see many more users of wqy fonts in the future!

Jens




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