Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:01:38 -0800 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Cc: NAKATA Maho <chat95@mac.com>, Daichi GOTO <daichi@ongs.co.jp>, java@freebsd.org, glewis@freebsd.org, SAITOU Toshihide <toshi@ruby.ocn.ne.jp>, ????????? Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com>, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Japanese font conf for JDK16 to use IPA font Message-ID: <20090227190138.GA24778@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <200902271301.57014.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <49A77F4A.2080508@ongs.co.jp> <200902271159.15176.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200902271301.57014.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:01:31PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Friday 27 February 2009 11:59 am, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Friday 27 February 2009 12:51 am, Daichi GOTO wrote: > > > Hi greg :) > > > > > > How about to deploy or integrate included fontconfig.properties > > > file to /usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties or > > > /usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties.src. > > > > > > I have known some Japanese java developers have been giving up to > > > use FreeBSD and Java as their default development environment > > > because FreeBSD JDK16 default configurations lacks of proper > > > Japanese font setting. > > > > > > Right now, IPA font(japanese/ipa-ttfonts) is proper high quality > > > font as Japanese font. To enable that font as default font makes > > > a lot of sense. > > > > > > I have checked included one with JDK16 and OpenJDK6, that looks > > > like working well. > > > > I have been using the attached properties for korean fonts for many > > years, which uses korean/unfonts-ttf. Baekmuk fonts in your > > properties are unmaintained and obsolete. Un-series fonts are de > > facto standard for korean FOSS projects these days. One of the > > reasons is it works pretty well with Freetype2. I believe many > > FOSS projects still use Baekmuk because Redhat does. :-( > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112877 > > It is little OT but I found Fedora project approved Un-series fonts as > the next default korean fonts: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UN_fonts > > "Fontconfig has been changed upstream to use UN as default Korean font > set instead of Baekmuk (current Fedora Korean font)." > > Yeah! So which Korean fonts should we be using? The new ones or the ones in the fontconfig.properties you sent? I'd like to merge those changes with Daichi-san's and get them both committed :). -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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