From: Yoshihisa Uchida <y_uchida-lj_at_infoseek.jp>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:43:40 +0900

Hi

In current version GNU Unifont, there are the following problems.
(1) Space (U+0020, U+00a0, etc), TAB is not displayed by the blank.
These displayed as [SP], [NBSP], [HT].

Therefore, the menu and the title, etc. are very hard to read.

Other space like characters (U+00a0, U+3000 etc.) are similer.

(2) Because Rockbox doesn't support the combination of the characters, the glyph change of character of combining diacritical marks are not significant.

When the characters changed by GNU Unifont 20080820 -> 20080827 was checked, the correction of combining diacritical marks and space like characters was most.

Thus, I think that I need not change 16-GNU-Unifont.bdf (this is based on
GNU Unifont 20080820).

> -----original message-----
> send: "unifoundry_at_unifoundry.com" <unifoundry_at_unifoundry.com>
> receive: "Rockbox development" <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>
> date: 09/04/27 06:33
> subject: Re: Unifont (was: Re: Help improve Rockbox - call for translators)
>
>
> unifoundry_at_unifoundry.com wrote:
> > 2009/3/9 Jonas Haggqvist <rasher_at_rasher.dk>:
> >> With a Rockbox release around the corner, now is the time to jump in and
> >> help where you can. As the translation maintainer, I'll focus on this angle.
> >
> > Hi Rasher/Jonas. I recently learned that you are using the BDF version
> > of Unifont that I put together, building on Roman Czyborra's earlier
> > work. For last year's releases, my immediate focus was trying to get
> > the TrueType font in as good a condition as possible for the upcoming
> > Debian 5.0 (lenny) release. Debian doesn't even allow BDF fonts to be
> > installed right now (they must be converted to PCF), so I left major
> > work
> > on the BDF version for a later release. The only changes I made to
> > hex2bdf
> > were changes that had already been made by others for Ubuntu.
> >
> > On the licensing, it is distributed under GPL v2 with font embedding
> > exception because I included thousands of CJK ideographs from
> > Qianqian Fang's Wen Quan Yi font, and that is the licensing under which
> > Wen Quan Yi is distributed. It is a free license, so there shouldn't be
> > any worries in including the font with Rockbox.
>
> I've created a custom build of Unifont for Rockbox. The URLs are:
>
> http://unifoundry.com/unifont-rockbox-20080907.bdf.gz
>
> and
>
> http://unifoundry.com/unifont-rockbox-20080907.hex.gz
>
> The above version was formed with the command
>
> cat rc-base.hex wqy-cjk.hex rc-hangul.hex | sort
> >unifont-rockbox-20080907.hex
>
> and then converted to BDF with
>
> hex2bdf !$ >unifont-rockbox-20080907.bdf
>
> then gzipped the result. I modified hex2bdf to make the substitution
> character follow the Unicode Standard's 65533 (U+FFFD) rather than 32
> (the space character).
>
> The date, 20080907, is the date of the glyph collection used to form the
> font. If anyone ever finds any problems with glyphs that will let me
> trace it back to other versions that might be affected.
>
> This Rockbox version removes the filler glyphs for unassigned spaces,
> and removes the 6,400 Private Use Area glyphs. Otherwise it is
> complete. The resulting font still has 53,430 glyphs. I've gone
> through the whole font and it looks okay.
>
>
> Paul Hardy
>
>
>
>

Yours,

Yoshihisa Uchida
Received on 2009-04-27