Re: Unicode is optimal for Chinese/Japanese multilingual texts

[Werner LEMBERG <wl@xxxxxxx>]

> > 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.

I think this is bad wording.  He probably means differnent shapes like
`gothic' or `mincho' (`mingti' or `kaiti').


    Werner
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