Re: Unicode is optimal for Chinese/Japanese multilingual texts

["Andrew Cunningham" <andjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-utf8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: Unicode is optimal for Chinese/Japanese multilingual texts


>
> Is the following scenario completely inconceivable?
>
> A group of East Asian caligraphy experts with internationally recognised
> good taste get together, look for every glyph in the unihan database at
> the shapes used in all the different referenced dictionaries and then
> draw for each character a glyph in a consistent style that is pleasing
> for people accustomed to any single of these style variants. This might
> mean that for some glyphs the Japanese variations have to be taken
> stronger into account then a native Chinese reader would normally have
> expected. Not quite as strong as to offend the Chinese or Korean eye,
> but with enough of a hint towards the modern Japanese shape such that
> comfortable readability for people trained within the Japanese ministry
> of education guidelines is ensured.
>

or alternatively develop an open type font which contains the variant
chinese/korean/japanese glyphs and use glyph substitution based on the
language?





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