Re: Asian language fonts?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > If you need western characters, use a western font.
> 
> The problem is that we need to mix them.  It is very common that
> Asian text will be interspersed with Western text.  Certainly if I
> am doing some kind of professional or desktop publishing, I can
> switch fonts within a string of text (though that doesn't always
> look right).  But for more mundane uses, it is impractical to be
> able to use more than one font in a line text.  Maybe those who are
> reading Asian text don't care what the Western characters look like
> (heck they are monospaced by nature as it is), and so this really is
> a non-issue.

For such apps you need a font which has been designed to do that,
e.g. Bitstream's Cyberbit.  The back side is that such fonts are
incredibly large.


    Werner