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

Wed Nov 19 16:31:53 UTC 2014

Dear all,
I recommend to use hanziresearcher (汉文博士) because it uses the 中研院 cdphanzi data but more comprehensive.http://hanbox.cnblogs.com/I believe Babelstone Han is the future of the so called Arphic PL font derivatives because the author (Andrew West) is active and 
he is still developing it and will support CJK Extension E soon. You can find him at Adobe CCJKType blog. 
Now I am still using cut & paste method to produce AR PL UKai that supports CJK Extension Cand CJK Extension D because there are still few fonts support these Unicode ranges. 
As far as I know, one of the WenQuanYi developers in Taiwan is still refining the strokes of CJK Basic range.Maybe you can find new version of 文泉驿正黑 in nightly build.PeTerChow

     Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680 at gmail.com> 於 2014年11月15日 (週六) 9:55 PM 寫道﹕

 On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:56 PM, 魔法設計師 <shoichi.chou at gmail.com> wrote:
> About CJKUnifont project,I think you may find it in Debian repository
> servers. If what you need is source data or raw data ,I think you maybe find
> other project.
> For example I have a project
> http://code.google.com/p/libdgg/
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> depend on a raw data font "single.fnt" ,which includes 中研院's contribution.
> There are more than 78000漢字 in it. You can check out it. It maybe help you.

Thank you! That might replace the use of ids_rs.txt file which is
missing in the tutorial. To make use of single.fnt might need some
further research.

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> 2014-11-13 23:51 GMT+08:00 Walter Cheuk <wwycheuk at gmail.com>:
>>
>> FYI, something useful may be found at:
>>
>> http://www.study-area.org/apt/firefly-font/

Well, I cannot connect to this link. :S

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>> 2014-11-08 12:19 GMT+08:00 Walter Cheuk <wwycheuk at gmail.com>:
>> > 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.

By the way, I have found a font project caled as BabelStone Han which
was created by merging the "AR PL Mingti2L Big5" font (13,068 CJK
Unified Ideographs) and "AR PL SungtiL GB" font (6,763 CJK Unified
Ideographs). That is, it was created in the way which was the same as
firefly sung (AR PL Sung/AR PL New Sung). And CJKUnifonts based on
firefly sung to go further (AR PL UMing).

Link: http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html

If BabelStone Han has progressed much more than AR PL UMing, we may
give up AR PL UMing and help or fork BabelStone Han which is focus on
China variant of Han characters instead for Mingti/Sunti style of open
CJK fonts.

>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> 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.
>> >>>> _______________________________________________
>> >>>> CJKUnifonts-devel mailing list
>> >>>> CJKUnifonts-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> >>>>
>> >>>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cjkunifonts-devel
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> by Cheng-Chia Tseng
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