And—it seems the not too distant future is already here, partly. ㆺ of the extended Bopomofo range was already added in a new version of fonts-hanazono (20130222-1).
/Kess 2013/5/28 Kess Vargavind <vargav...@gmail.com> > Hello Toni (et al.), > > 𠀀 is available in, at least, the font HanaMinA [1] and > 𠀅 is available in, at least, fonts such as HanaMinB [1] and IPAmjMincho > [2]. > > [1] fonts-hanazono > [2] fonts-ipamj-mincho > > As for the three characters in the “Bopomofo extended” range, they were > added > in Unicode version 6.0, and support for them will probably come in the not > too > distant future. Lately we have had extremely good CJK coverage, rather > fast. > > Kind regards, > Kess > > > 2013/5/28 john knightley <john.knight...@gmail.com> > >> Dear Toni and others, >> >> there are 75 thousand Chinese characters in Unicode, hence one ttf file >> which has a limit of 256x256 glyphs can not contain all Chinese characters, >> at least two ttf font files are required. Some packages contain 2 ttf files >> often labelled A and B one from Chinese characters in the BMP (Basic >> Multilingual Plane) and another for those in SIP (Supplementary Ideographic >> Plane) . The example above is from SIP. >> >> >> Regards >> John >> >> >> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Toni Mueller <supp...@oeko.net> wrote: >> >>> Package: fonts-moe-standard-kai >>> Version: 20120530-1 >>> Severity: minor >>> >>> Dear Maintainer, >>> >>> this bug report may be relevant to antother font packages, but I don't >>> know which one. Please reassign as you deem appropriate. >>> >>> In the Chinese font packages, some glyphs seem to be missing. You can >>> see the problem on this web page: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuyin >>> >>> For me, these characters don't display: >>> >>> 1. In the table "Rhymes & Medials", there is this text: >>> >>> "From the obsolete character 𠀀 hē, ..." >>> >>> You can see that the glyph for the character after "character" is >>> missing. >>> >>> Three rows down, the same problem occurs in this text: >>> >>> "From 𠀅 hài, bronze form of 亥" >>> >>> 2. Further down, just above the "See also" section, there is a table >>> titled "Bopomofo Extended", where the last three glyphs are missing. >>> >>> >>> I have these fonts installed: >>> >>> fonts-arphic-bkai00mp >>> fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp >>> fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp >>> fonts-arphic-gkai00mp >>> fonts-arphic-ukai >>> fonts-arphic-uming >>> fonts-cwtex-docs >>> fonts-cwtex-fs >>> fonts-cwtex-heib >>> fonts-cwtex-kai >>> fonts-cwtex-ming >>> fonts-cwtex-yen >>> fonts-droid >>> fonts-sil-nuosusil >>> emacs-intl-fonts >>> xfonts-intl-chinese >>> xfonts-intl-chinese-big >>> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp >>> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp >>> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp >>> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp >>> texlive-metapost >>> ttf-wqy-microhei >>> ttf-wqy-zenhei >>> xfonts-wqy >>> fonts-moe-standard-kai >>> fonts-moe-standard-song >>> fonts-cns11643-kai >>> fonts-cns11643-sung >>> hbf-cns40-5 >>> hbf-cns40-4 >>> hbf-cns40-7 >>> hbf-cns40-6 >>> hbf-cns40-1 >>> hbf-cns40-3 >>> hbf-cns40-2 >>> >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> --Toni++ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- System Information: >>> Debian Release: 7.0 >>> APT prefers stable >>> APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, >>> 'experimental') >>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) >>> Foreign Architectures: i386 >>> >>> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >>> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) >>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >>> >>> Versions of packages task-chinese-t depends on: >>> ii tasksel 3.14+nmu2 >>> >>> Versions of packages task-chinese-t recommends: >>> ii zhcon 1:0.2.6-10 >>> >>> task-chinese-t suggests no packages. >>> >>> -- no debconf information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pkg-fonts-devel mailing list >>> pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org >>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fonts-devel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pkg-fonts-devel mailing list >> pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fonts-devel >> > >
