[OSM-dev] chinese font missing in mapnik

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 11 Jul 2007, at 16:26, Luka Frelih wrote:

>
>> Thanks for the info. We need some free fonts with better unicode
>> coverage, then. Any ideas? I tried RH Liberation fonts with the same
>> result  - [][]
> In Debian distro, chinese unicode fonts are in these packages:
>
> i   ttf-arphic-ukai - "AR PL ZenKai Uni" Chinese Unicode TrueType font
> Kaiti style
> i   ttf-arphic-uming - "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni" Chinese Unicode TrueType
> font Mingti style
>
> kai = more calligraphic
> ming = more rectangular and uniform
> actually the osmarender result on map right now is something else,
> sans-serif like and nice for maps in my opinion. i wonder what font is
> that.
>
> The code2000 font is not free, its shareware (5$), but it contains
> around 60000 glyphs. If there is no option of having fallback for
> missing characters like browsers (and inkscape, it seems) do, it might
> be worth trying with it.
> http://www.code2000.net/code2000_page.htm
>
> The freefont project http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/ seems to cover  
> many
> phonetic alphabets but not chinese ideographs.
>
> I dont know of a free software unicode truetype font covering all  
> scripts.
>
> On the page pointed out by d tucny, the ntu-mr looks good to me, like
> sans serif and freely distributable, but it uses a big5 encoding,  
> which
> might be another technical hurdle besides fallback.
>
> LF

Yes, there are some Chinese fonts around, thanks everyone for pointers.
I'll have to look into implementing 'fallback' as it looks the way  
forward.

Cheers,
Artem

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Artem Pavlenko
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