Re: GBK support -- Charset room in MULE is so limited!

[kawabata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (KAWABATA, Taichi)]

Hello, 

>>>>> In [mule : No.03268], 
>>>>> Su Yong <ysu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do some of them distribute the product on the FTP sites?

Su>           Maybe TLC(Turbo Linux Chinese) does so, I'm not sure.
Su>           But, it seems that they do not allow the GB18030 fonts to
Su>           depart form theirs products :(

If you want the fonts, simsun18030.ttc, which can be obtained from the
previously mentioned Microsoft sites, contains the minimum character
sets required by the committee of Chinese government to be admitted as
GB18030-compliant product.

On the other hand, simsun.ttc, which you have to buy (Office XP PK)
and can't be obtained from the net, contains the humongeous 60,000
chinese characters listed in Extension A and Extension B.  Its cmap
has platform id 3 and encoding id 10, which means 32-bit character
encoding.  You will need the newest snapshot of freetype (with some
patches) to access this font, but unfortunately, X-window system does
not provide the API to access 32 bit fonts, which is indeed a problem
of supporting GB 18030 / Unicode.

The mistake(?) of assigning BMP as "-iso10646-1" XLFD makes these
problem even more complex, I think.

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