RE: Unicode is optimal for Chinese/Japanese multilingual texts

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 yaoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> There are such fonts there but they are all TTF font.  For example
> one popular font among mainland Chinese is SimSun.ttf.  It contains
.....
> I once tried to convert SimSun.ttf to a bitmap font, but as you all know,
> the resulted bitmap font does not look good.

  With X-TT included in XF86 4.0, do we want/need to convert TTF
to BDF? How good is X-TT at rendering TTF fonts at small size for
screen? Maybe it's dependent not just on X-TT's rendering ability but
also on whether  TTF  in question has 'bitmap' embedded for small
size and things like that.

  Jungshik Shin

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