[Fontconfig] [PATCH v2] accept more Japanese fonts

[Akira TAGOH]

thanks. LGTM. merged.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Akihiro TSUKADA <tskd2 at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Re-base ja.orth on "Joyo Kanji List" instead of JIS X 0208.
> This change cuts about 4200 characters off from the previous ja.orth
> and allows more Japanese fonts to be tagged with "ja".
>
> Difference in the list of "ja"-tagged Japanese fonts:
>
> 1. "ja" by the both versions of ja.orth
>
> Droid Sans Japanese
> Droid Sans Fallback [Legacy|Full]
> IPA [P|ex]{Gothic|Mincho}
> Sazanami {Gothic|Mincho}
> VL [P]Gothic
> wadalab {hoso|chu}maru gothic
>
> 2. "ja" by the new version, but not by the original
>
> Koruri
> M+ {1|2}{c|p|m}
> Sawarabi Gothic
>
> 3. "ja" by the original, but not by the new
>
> None
>
> 4. not "ja" by the both
>
> Sawarabi Mincho (many chars missing)
>
> ---
> The previous version of ja.orth was based on JIS X 0208 (6879 chars).
> It includes lots of un-common / obsolete characters and
> slight variations of common characters that are used just in human names,
> so the Japanese government issued (revised) a public notice in 2010 on the
> list of commonly used chinese characters, "Joyo Kanji List" (2136 kanji's).
>
> URL: http://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/kokujikunrei_h221130.html
> URL: http://x0213.org/joyo-kanji-code/index.en.html
>
> It is basically a subset of JIS X 0213 and
> is used in official documents, education.
> The press also uses it with just some characters modifications,
> thus it covers most frequently used codepoints.
> Some (relatively new) fonts cover this list with atmost
> a few characters exception, but not the whole JIS X 0208.
>
> --------
> akihiro



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Akira TAGOH