Re: Unicode is optimal for Chinese/Japanese multilingual texts

[Thomas Chan <chan.200@xxxxxxx>]

Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> 
> At Sun, 8 Apr 2001 23:04:29 +0200 (CEST),
> PILCH Hartmut <phm@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > My impression is that this subject is not urgent for this round.
> > Currently our problem is not having enough unifonts, no matter with which
> > cjk national bias.
> 
> We don't have enough even local fonts.  For Japanese, I know some
> people are working on this field.  We don't have Japanese fonts
> with bold, italic, and so on.  And more, we don't have Japanese fonts
> for good number of sizes.  We also don't have scalable font.

What exactly would you need bold and/or italic versions of in a
"Japanese font"?  Perhaps Latin and Cyrillic, but what else?
Surely you are not saying that you need bold and italic versions of
kanji and kana.


Thomas Chan
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