On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:30:23 +0100 Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Zhang Weiwu wrote: > | > | Now I just switch back to Gentoo and discovered, well, I am not sure > | but looks a bit lag behind on updating portage. I only noticed two > | examples: > | 2. The other package arphicfonts are not developed for years > | neither, a continue effort is the CJK Unifont project. In > | Gentoo still there are only old packages. The new project > | produce Chinese font that is used as default Chinese font in > | Ubuntu. > > Actually more people are using Simsun or Yahei from Windoze for > pragmatic reasons. Also you can try wqy-bitmapfont. Yes I knew Simsun, Yahei. My suggestion is if there is an opensource Chinese font with reasonably wide coverage, it should be there for those who want to have it. ghostscript-gpl when added "cjk" USE flag, would depend on the years-old arpphic fonts, the best behavior is either tell users to use Yahei/Simsun or use the latest CJK Unifont, not providing the latest enhanced opensource font is pratcially encouraging users to copy propiertry fonts. I think CJK Unifont project has done a lot of hinting work to make it look nice on screen and now it's much more usable on desktop then old arpphic font, it's making sense to avoid user install an old font and say "oh, opensource fonts looks bad" and then go copy the Windows fonts, when they actually got the outdated fonts. wqy-bitmap is in an other category. It's usable on the screen but not on word processing. I am using it right now as my default screen font:) Thanks for having it in portage. > | By the way I can compile these packages myself and I can contribute > | ebuilds when I got some free time (e.g. in the coming holiday). I am > | just a bit curious on how everything is generally going on in > | Portage. > > AFAIK, Gentoo CJK team is short-staffed. > It's better if you can join gentoo and become a developer, ;) > > If you want to know how everything is going on in portage, you can > check either: http://packages.gentoo.org > or: > http://cia.vc/stats/project/gentoo > > Ad time, ;) > If you have some Chinese related questions, you can easily get an > answer here: http://groups.google.com/group/gentoo-china/ > http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/forum59.html > Also #gentoo-cn on freenode Thanks for the information. I'll see what I can do in the coming spring festival and see if I can help. Best regards Zhang Weiwu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
