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diff --git a/x11-fonts/wqy/pkg-descr b/x11-fonts/wqy/pkg-descr index b1374de601bc..5ee18f3f9180 100644 --- a/x11-fonts/wqy/pkg-descr +++ b/x11-fonts/wqy/pkg-descr @@ -1,18 +1,15 @@ -The wqy font includes all the CJK characters covered by the Unicode -Standard 4.0. - -This font is created by merging GNU Unifont (by Roman Czyborra -<roman@czyborra.com> and David Starner <dvdeug@debian.org>) with GBK 16 font -from yh-3.1 (Yan Huang Chinese Platform, Redflag Linux, -http://www.redflag-linux.com/). - -The CJK Unified Ideographs (U+4E00~U+9FA5) are now complete, and the quality -of the bitmaps has improved significantly. - -This release is part of an ongoing effort from the WenQuanYi Project to -create high-quality open-source bitmap Chinese fonts. - -Currently only bitmap fonts are available. TTF fonts are in progress. +The Wen Quan Yi bitmap font includes complete CJK Unified +Ideograph (U4E00 - U9FA5) glyphs at four different sizes +(9pt-12X12 pixel, 10pt-13X13 pixel, 11pt-15X15 pixel, +12pt-16x16 pixel) and two weights (medium and bold). +Use of this bitmap font for on-screen display of Chinese +(traditional and simplified) in web pages and elsewhere +eliminates the annoying "blurring" problems caused by +the high stroke density of many Chinese characters and +insufficient "hinting" of anti-aliased Chinese fonts. +This font also provides bitmap glyphs for Japanese +Hiragana (U3040 - U309F), Katakana (U30A0 - U30FF) +and for Korean Hangul (UAC00 - UD7A3). WWW: http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/ WWW: http://sitaphi.com/pub/song_jian_biao/ |