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

[Cheng-Chia Tseng]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Walter Cheuk <wwycheuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> (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.

After search for a while, I found packagers of magiea has packaged
odofont 1.6 into their repository.
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/core/release/fonts-ttf-chinese-opendesktop-1.6.100-6.mga5.noarch.rpm

So New Kai might serve as a good start point for Kai style of free CJK fonts.

>
>>> 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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by Cheng-Chia Tseng