Saturday, October 24, 2020

Re: bitmap fonts: Install pango 1.44 compatible OpenType fonts

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:56:55PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> now that our in tree fonttosfnt is updated to properly handle the metrics of
> terminus and others bitmap fonts, I'd like to change the appropriate ports
> to install .otb versions of the fonts along with their .pcf.gz versions.
> I tested only the latin fonts. Maybe someone with korean, japanese or
> chinese knowledge could have a look at those ?
>
> OK?
>
>
> Christopher
>
I'm not quite sure how to test this...

Specifically, at least in gimp, there's obvious font substitution

I see diacritics obviously belonging to Dina font.

But kana and kanji look very clean and not bitmap, I suspect they get
borrowed from another font.


Hopefully, you can try copy and pasting the following text in various programs
and figure out how it looks:


French diacritics

Amélie mon cœur

Japanese katakana/hiragana
ノゾミ, のぞみ

Japanese kanji

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