BetterCJKSupportSpecification

Revision 11 as of 2005-11-05 20:10:21

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Summary

This project (maybe a package) aims to support CJK better .

Rationale

We'd like to preconfig some file when people choose Chinese,Japenses or Korea,patch some package for support CJK better .

Use cases

Scope

Design

  • Install a default input method such as scim and make the scim started when user start X.
    1. Useful links here for Korean Input Methods
  • Configure the fonts.conf, then you will get a perfect CJK fonts display .Surely,to obtain this ,we need some fonts package's support like ttf-arphic-uming ,etc.
  • Make user use CJK can display their mp3 file's tag correctly .
  • Let the user can read/write chinese under console.
  • Make OO2 support CJK better.
    1. Firefly has a large patch which makes OOo2 much better for Chinese.
    2. IMO, applying Firefly's patches to get "fake bold" is now almost fading-out stage because of "embolden". Agree on that quality of font rendering by Firefly's patches is much better than "embolden" at this point even for Korean and surely for Chinese. However, "embolden" supported by freetype+xft2+fontconfig combo is the way-to-go since, first, it will reduce lot of extra efforts performed by CJK users to get basic fake bold, pango and qt patches and second, it's supported by default packages. So is it possible to take both quality from Firefly's patches and less-efforts from "embolden"?
    3. But, absolutely, Korean users love to see bold patch for OOo2.
  • Configure firefox for print CJK correctly
  • Enable embolden as default for CJK users
    1. Debian unstable has freetype 2.1.10
    2. Build xft2, fontconfig, pango and cairo2 with embolden enabled
    3. This is sort of early bug report because freetype 2.1.10 is not even in Dapper repo, but for head-up "embolden" has a big rendering problem :

      1. words in sentence are individually displayed right-upward like as several slopes. This often happens in bigger size like as web page heading than smaller, and in Konqueror and Opera than Firefox. But, a Gentoo user who had compiled xorg-x11-7.0 rc1 showed much nicer screen. Please see the screenshots in this link. http://bbs.kldp.org/viewtopic.php?t=65304&highlight= Also you might catch rendering quality by Akito's patch (top) and "embolden" (bottom) from this screenshot. Top one is much better. http://bbs.kldp.org/download.php?id=5319

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