Fedora core Chinese font support

Leo sdl.web at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 11:55:21 UTC 2006


On Tue, 10/10/06 11:17 +0100, Yuan Yijun wrote:

> 2006/10/9, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com>:
>>
>> FZSongTi, 方正宋体, which is a commercial font.
>>
>>
>> Tweaking font needs some expertise on fontconfig, xft and
>> freetype. It's not a task for end users. I hope fedora come with a
>> better Chinese font support.
>>
>
> chinese fonts in fc6 has changed a lot from fc5, the look and feel has
> been improved so much that you have never seen in other distributions.
> please compare fc6 to novell again after fc6 released.
>
> -- 
> bbbush ^_^

I probably can do it for FC7. I have no plan to upgrade to FC6 since
I'm stuck with a lot of work at this time. But what on earth has
changed from FC6 to FC5 with respect to Chinese fonts? Is it the new
fontconfig or a new CJK font? Is it possible to backport those to FC5?

Thanks,
-- 
Leo




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