From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Chinese
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:29:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <439D6D21.4030705@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4399A2F8.8040900@net-b.de>
Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>
>> Is there less kerning among CJK fonts? I would expect so.
>
> Classically any Chinese character has exactly the same width, which is
> the same as the height (square). Nowadays some are taller than wide.
> I'm quite certain that there is hardly any Chinese font with kerning
> as this would break the grid.
>
>> Thinking aloud, you'd probably want to include some
>> language-switching commands, to mediate between the calling of
>> unicode fonts for un-named CJK glyphs (just raw conversion from
>> Unicode to font switch + glyph number) to named roman (and other
>> alphabetic) glyphs (conversion from UTF-8 to named glyphs to
>> font+glyph, which retains kerning where it can).
>
> Well, I think one uses most of the time different fonts for Chinese
> and non-CJK texts as many Chinese fonts don't include that many roman
> letters (at least the ones quoted at
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chinese miss the ß and ä).
if there is a utf-8 mapping for chinese, then th eother chars can come
from the main text font
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-12 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-05 7:36 strange behavior of startbackground Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 7:43 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 9:07 ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-05 12:46 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 14:33 ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-06 2:04 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-06 2:29 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-08 12:36 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-12-08 15:35 ` Chinese (was:Re: strange behavior of startbackground) Tobias Burnus
2005-12-08 20:26 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-08 22:11 ` Chinese Patrick Gundlach
2005-12-09 2:19 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 10:53 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-09 13:46 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 14:03 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-09 14:19 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 14:24 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 15:01 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-09 15:24 ` Chinese Richard Gabriel
2005-12-12 15:53 ` Chinese Hans Hagen
2005-12-12 21:15 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-14 22:19 ` Chinese Hans Hagen
2005-12-13 9:14 ` Chinese Richard Gabriel
2005-12-13 9:55 ` Chinese Hans Hagen
2005-12-13 10:31 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 14:43 ` Chinese Adam Lindsay
2005-12-09 15:30 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-12 12:29 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2005-12-06 2:29 ` strange behavior of startbackground Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 7:48 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 7:52 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 8:50 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-12-05 9:05 ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-05 12:37 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 14:35 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] <20051212173143.94765127FA@ronja.ntg.nl>
2005-12-13 8:07 ` Chinese Duncan Hothersall
[not found] <20051209110003.CF289127DF@ronja.ntg.nl>
2005-12-09 11:06 ` Chinese Duncan Hothersall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-18 0:42 chinese Jens-Uwe Morawski
2002-05-19 22:29 ` chinese Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <5.1.0.14.1.20020521085937.0405c110@server-1>
[not found] ` <001801c20415$4fe46e30$04c7fea9@wanglei>
2002-05-25 20:25 ` chinese Hans Hagen
2002-05-26 18:42 ` chinese Mr. Lei Wang
2002-05-26 19:28 ` chinese Hans Hagen
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