[Xorg] Re: [Fontconfig] adding/distributing new fonts

[Edward G.J. Lee]

Hello Danilo,

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004, Danilo ??egan wrote:
> Hi Edward,
> 
> Today at 11:22, Edward G. J. Lee wrote:
> 
> >   But I don't think it's easy to add more characters, because
> >   we don't have another free fonts and APL is not GPL compatible.
> 
> There're many excellent free fonts.  You can start with URW-CYR (35
> faces), Computer Modern Unicode (CM Unicode, another couple of dozen
> faces, all based on Knuth's magnificient Computer Modern family of
> typefaces ;), Bitstream Vera, ... There're other free fonts for
> non-Latin/Cyrillic based scripts, but I don't know much about them
> (except that they exist :).

  The problem is the license, URW fonts license under GNU GPL
  AFAIK. But APL is not GPL compatible. :(
  
  Anyway, we have another MBE Arphic font project by Arne Goetje,
  maybe will have more characters.
  
  Currently it fully supports the following charsets:
  
  ISO8859-1,2,3,4,7,9,10,13,14,15
  Big5
  GB2312-80
  Modern Bopomofo Extensions for Hakka, Minnan
  
  Partly support is implemented for:
  
  HKSCS
  CNS 11643
  GB18030

  http://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/



Edward