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On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:30:23 +0100 |
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Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote: |
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> Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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> | Now I just switch back to Gentoo and discovered, well, I am not sure |
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> | but looks a bit lag behind on updating portage. I only noticed two |
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> | examples: |
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> | 2. The other package arphicfonts are not developed for years |
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> | neither, a continue effort is the CJK Unifont project. In |
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> | Gentoo still there are only old packages. The new project |
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> | produce Chinese font that is used as default Chinese font in |
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> | Ubuntu. |
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> Actually more people are using Simsun or Yahei from Windoze for |
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> pragmatic reasons. Also you can try wqy-bitmapfont. |
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Yes I knew Simsun, Yahei. My suggestion is if there is an opensource |
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Chinese font with reasonably wide coverage, it should be there for those |
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who want to have it. |
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ghostscript-gpl when added "cjk" USE flag, would depend on the years-old |
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arpphic fonts, the best behavior is either tell users to use |
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Yahei/Simsun or use the latest CJK Unifont, not providing the latest |
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enhanced opensource font is pratcially encouraging users to copy |
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propiertry fonts. I think CJK Unifont project has done a lot of hinting |
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work to make it look nice on screen and now it's much more usable on |
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desktop then old arpphic font, it's making sense to avoid user install |
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an old font and say "oh, opensource fonts looks bad" and then go copy |
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the Windows fonts, when they actually got the outdated fonts. |
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wqy-bitmap is in an other category. It's usable on the screen but not on |
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word processing. I am using it right now as my default screen font:) |
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Thanks for having it in portage. |
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> | By the way I can compile these packages myself and I can contribute |
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> | ebuilds when I got some free time (e.g. in the coming holiday). I am |
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> | just a bit curious on how everything is generally going on in |
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> | Portage. |
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> AFAIK, Gentoo CJK team is short-staffed. |
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> It's better if you can join gentoo and become a developer, ;) |
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> If you want to know how everything is going on in portage, you can |
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> check either: http://packages.gentoo.org |
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> or: |
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> http://cia.vc/stats/project/gentoo |
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> Ad time, ;) |
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> If you have some Chinese related questions, you can easily get an |
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> answer here: http://groups.google.com/group/gentoo-china/ |
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> http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/forum59.html |
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> Also #gentoo-cn on freenode |
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Thanks for the information. I'll see what I can do in the coming spring |
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festival and see if I can help. |
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Best regards |
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Zhang Weiwu |
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