[CJKUnifonts-devel] Links in CJKUnifont project on freedesktop wiki don't work anymore

[Walter Cheuk]

Someone helpful may be found here
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/cjkunifonts-devel/

Also Firefly (螢火飛), the original author of the 'New Sung' font, also
has continuous input to the font.


2014-11-08 11:46 GMT+08:00 Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680 at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Walter Cheuk <wwycheuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If we can't contact the original author, could we just fork the
>> project and start a new one?
>
>
> Yes. We can.
>
> Did anyone here download the source files/ template files (fontforge
> sfd file) and resources before? That will be better than ttf/ttc files
> which lose some details and save us time to recreate those reference
> files.
>
> Anyway, we can still use fontforge to read ttf/ttc and export sfd file
> again, so that won't be a big problem.
>
>>
>> 2014-11-08 0:46 GMT+08:00 Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680 at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Anyone who cares about open CJK fonts might have known that Adobe and
>>> Google released open font project as Source Han Sans / Noto Sans CJK for
>>> Heiti style.
>>>
>>> I do believe open CJK font of Mingti / Sungti style still needs attention
>>> and work to get better. I try to learn the tutorial on project wiki and
>>> want to get involved in this project but in the end I found that all links
>>> on the wiki which link to canonical site did not work anymore. Source file
>>> and template file could not be downloaded.
>>>
>>> Tutorial:
>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Resources/Tutorial/
>>>
>>> And I found that CJKUnifont project on freedesktop wiki did not update
>>> since 2008/02/16. There is no further release either.
>>>
>>> I tried to contact the project leader, Arne, about this issue and sent
>>> several mails to him via the address provided on the wiki since Aug 23.
>>> However, I don't receive any response until today.
>>>
>>> So I would like to ask anyone who has the permission to update the wiki and
>>> who have those latest files downloaded could help fix the content. This
>>> might be the last method and chance we could come up with to make this
>>> project alive again.
>>>
>>> If we fail, that would be another big loss besides WenQuanYi project (there
>>> is no further releases since 2009) in the history of open CJK font, and may
>>> FLOSS community who use CJK font will memorize the gorgeous work which
>>> CJKUnifonts project had achieved.
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>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> by Cheng-Chia Tseng