On 10/21/2010 06:50 AM, Robert Scheck wrote:

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, francis+fedora+fonts@thibault.org wrote:

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But Unicode has separate character ranges for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean now. Can't you use a font that has distinct glyphs for those characters?

which font(s) in Fedora could provide that or would satisfy that?

I wouldn't know. I was just objecting to the notion that such a font was impossible.

If it exists in Fedora, here's one way you could find it:

* Find a character that's supposed to be different in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. * Find the Unicode codepoints that represent that character in the three languages. * Write HTML entities for those codepoints. * Write a script that loops over all the fonts you have, and, for each font Fred, emits:

<li>Fred: <font face="Fred">$HTMLENTITIES</font></li>

* Take the resulting HTML, view it in your Web browser, and start looking for a line where the three characters are different.

Again, whatever font or fonts we use, the characters/symbols in CN/JP/TW/KR

Note that Unicode doesn't distinguish between mainland China and Taiwan.