Ticket #95 (closed bug: fixed)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 10 months ago

Missing Chinese fonts

Reported by: dottedmag Owned by: dottedmag
Priority: normal Milestone: 0.2
Component: misc Version: post-0.1 snapshot
Keywords: fonts Cc:
Blocking: Blocked By:

Description (last modified by dottedmag) (diff)

We don't have any Chinese font in our firmware.

Change History

Changed 2 years ago by dottedmag

  • description modified (diff)

Changed 2 years ago by dottedmag

  • milestone changed from 0.1 to bluesky

It really helps to have an idea what fonts should look like. Pushing to bluesky until someone who knows the Chinese typography steps in and implements it.

Changed 2 years ago by dottedmag

  • milestone changed from bluesky to 0.2

Changed 2 years ago by dottedmag

ttf-wqy-zenhei - Ubuntu fonts.

Changed 20 months ago by tutanhamon

We have quite compact "Droid Sans Fallback". The question is if it should be installed by default (as fallback font in fontconfig configuration probably).

see  http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com/msg00639.html post and the whole discussion.

Changed 15 months ago by diony

 http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwenq.org%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D12%26t%3D830&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&history_state0=

WenQuanYi MicroHei 0.2beta is released. it's based on google droid fallback fonts, added lots of chinese characters, but the file size is still small and suitable for embedded devices.

this is the best chinese for oi, maybe.

Changed 15 months ago by diony

actually, "hei" fonts for chinese are sans serif fonts, while "song" is serif and good for long time reading. but we can not find any one free serif fonts for chinese is small for oi.

Changed 15 months ago by dingar

Perhaps we can try MicroHei.  http://wenq.org/index.cgi?MicroHei_BigBang_README

Changed 13 months ago by tutanhamon

  • keywords fonts added

Changed 12 months ago by dottedmag

  • version set to post-0.1 snapshot

Droid Sans Fallback is now installed to the firmware by default.

MicroHei looks nice, should we replace Droid fonts with this one? Are there glyphs present in Droid Sans Fallback, but missing from Micro Hei?

Changed 12 months ago by dottedmag

  • owner set to dottedmag
  • status changed from new to assigned

Changed 12 months ago by dottedmag

  • milestone changed from 0.2 to bluesky

Moving to later milestone, as there is Chinese font in firmware and no reaction from native readers regarding the quality of fonts.

Changed 12 months ago by dottedmag

  • milestone changed from bluesky to 0.3

Changed 10 months ago by ftofficer

The QenQuanYi font suggested by diony is already included in 0.2 rc. The quality is very good.

Changed 10 months ago by dottedmag

  • status changed from assigned to closed
  • resolution set to fixed
  • milestone changed from 0.3 to 0.2

Okay, then I consider this ticket fixed. Please open then separate bugreports if you find good fonts which worth including (e.g. MicroHei mentioned here).

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