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

[Walter Cheuk]

(This is a re-set message)

I know that Firefly's New Sung/New Kai are even better than
UMing/UKai, but the problems are: 1. They are not publicly available,
or hard to find now (opendesktop.org.tw is closed); 2. UMing/UKai are
installed by default by many distros, including Ubuntu, but New
Sung/New Kai are not.

>> 2014-11-21 0:24 GMT+08:00 Chow Lok Yuen <bc_cly at yahoo.com.hk>:
>>> There was already AR PL New Kai by OpenDesktop in Taiwan. The aim of
>>> OpenDesktop to develop
>>> New Kai and New Sung was to replace the Windows counterpart -- DFKai-SB and
>>> PMingLiU.
>>> In order to making OO.o (OpenOffice.org) documents compatible with the
>>> documents created by
>>> Office Suite software, OpenDesktop adjusted some Font metrics of New Kai and
>>> New Sung so that
>>> when people opens the documents using OpenOffice, the text (especially
>>> Chinese text using DFKai-SB
>>> and PMingLiU) can by replaced by New Kai and New Sung without spatial
>>> relocation. OpenDesktop
>>> was a project funded by Taiwan Government to promote using open source
>>> software such as OO.o and Linux
>>> instead of using propietary software.
>>>
>>> Therefore, it is better to use AR PL New Kai than AR PL UKai HK. Also, the
>>> glyphs inside CJK Basic range
>>> look better in AR PL New Kai. I made about 130 CJK Ext. C and 155 CJK Ext. D
>>> glyphs. I am glad to see
>>> if someone can include my work to AR PL New Kai.
>>>
>>> PeTerChow
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Walter Cheuk <wwycheuk at gmail.com> 於 2014年11月20日 (週四) 10:59 AM 寫道﹕
>>>
>>>
>>> Very glad to hear that someone is still developing UKai, because it is
>>> installed by default by many distros, including Ubuntu, so it is very
>>> suitable for filling the 'holes' left by other fonts. But it is not
>>> releasing new versions, why?
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