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Re: Asian language fonts?


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: Asian language fonts?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:28:21 +0200 (CEST)

> I've remembered another project MOJIKYO which trying to make
> a looking up system for all Chinese characters including
> Japanese (about 90,000 characters), gather all fonts, and
> release fonts freely.  They have 20,000 characters defined
> by unicode, 50,000 from Dai Kanwa Dictionary, and others.
> 
> They are releasing TTF fonts now.  I'm not sure what kind of
> encoding system they are using though.
> 
> http://www.mojikyo.gr.jp/

These fonts are SJIS encoded; basically, Morohashi's Dai Kanwa
dictionary character IDs are used as `character codes'.  Not for the
weak...


    Werner



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