[Fontconfig] Improved zh_hk character check list (resend)

Abel Cheung abelcheung at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 05:57:18 PST 2014


My bad. UMing is supposed to be the font supporting zh-hk, but become
"unsupported" due to my over-zealous use of Hong Kong Supplementary
Character Set 2008. No fonts common on Linux/Unix has ever supported
it. The attached patch against my previously submitted file relaxes a
bit and only make sure fonts support 2004 version of standard (by
removing 2 code points). Just compiled git master branch once to check
(with the 2 code points removed), and zh-hk is listed again in
fc-query.

For the other font, it's the major reason I'm creating this update.
Associate it with earlier bug report and you'll see what I mean:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73461

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> wrote:
> Thank you for the updated .orth file. before merging I need to ask
> you. with the current zh_hk.orth, I can see WenquanYi Zen Hei families
> and AR PL UMing covers zh-hk language coverage in fontconfig. but with
> yours, those fonts doesn't anymore. is it expected behavior? and which
> fonts is supposed to support zh-hk then?
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Abel Cheung <abelcheung at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> (I sent this email yesterday without realizing I was unsubscribed, so
>> sending again)
>>
>> I wish to submit an improved version of zh_hk.orth which reflects real
>> language usage instead of current one which blindly lists subset of
>> unicode BMP code points. The list contains:
>>
>> - most frequent characters occuring in a crawled Hong Kong web page archive
>> - cantonese Wikipedia database dump, as well as
>> - a word recommendation list from a local linguist (who claims a font
>> shall be ready for basic usage in Hong Kong after making sure glyphs
>> in the list are created).
>>
>> The new file checks for less than half of code point when compared
>> with previous one, but shall be able to cover >99.7% of real usage.
>>
>> File will be attached directly since diff is larger than the existing
>> file itself, there are major changes.
>>
>> --
>> Abel Cheung
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> Akira TAGOH



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