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List:       xfree-i18n
Subject:    Re: [I18n]Displaying chinese in an xterm
From:       Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn () cl ! cam ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2002-08-14 17:33:20
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Jungshik Shin wrote on 2002-08-06 15:05 UTC:
>   You can use one of 18pixel iso10646-1 bitmap fonts included in XF86
> 4.x with more CJK characters than 13pixel font:
> 
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ko-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
> 
> However, I believe neither of them has the full coverage of GB 2312.

From README in http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz

   12x13ja.bdf:

     Covers all CP1252, CP437, JIS X 0208, and Hangul characters, and
     a few more. This font is primarily intended to provide Japanese
     full-width Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji for applications that
     take the remaining ("halfwidth") characters from 6x13.bdf. Might
     in the future be extended to cover TARGET2 if there is sufficient
     interest in using it as a stand-alone fixed-width font without
     6x13. The Greek lowercase characters in it are still a bit ugly
     and will need some work.

  18x18ja.bdf:

     Covers all JIS X 0208, JIS X 0212, GB 2312-80, KS X 1001:1992,
     ISO 8859-1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,15, CP437, CP850 and CP1252 characters,
     plus a few more, where priority was given to Japanese han style
     variants. This font should have everything needed to cover the
     full ISO-2022-JP-2 (RFC 1554) repertoire. This font is primarily
     intended to provide Japanese full-width Hiragana, Katakana, and
     Kanji for applications that take the remaining ("halfwidth")
     characters from 9x18.bdf.

  18x18ko.bdf:

     Covers the same repertoire as 18x18ja plus full coverage of all
     Hangul syllables and priority was given to Hanja glyphs in the
     unified CJK area as they are used for writing Korean.

What admittedly is still missing is an 18x18zh.bdf font that gives
priority to Chinese style variants, but GB 2312 is certainly covered by
both 18x18 fonts.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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