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available cjk bitmap font packages

bitmap fonts can be used with the x11 core font system as well as with xft/fontconfig. but currently only fonts with iso8859-1 and iso10646-1 encoding can be used by xft/fontconfig, i.e. the fonts from efont-unicode are the only ones from the table below which work with xft/fontconfig (see section 5.1.1).

the following table lists the cjk bitmap font packages which are available in addition to the fonts already included in the xfree86 package:

package name language encodings sizes (pixels) remarks
efont-unicode japanese, korean iso10646-1 10, 12, 14, 16, 24 bold, italic, and bold-italic styles
xfntjp japanese jisx0201.1976-0,
jisx0208.1983-0,
jisx0208.1990-0,
jisx0213.2000-1,
jisx0213.2000-2		 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24 bold, italic, and bold-italic styles
ifntjapa japanese jisx0201.1976-0,
jisx0208.1978-0,
jisx0208.1990-0,
jisx0208.1990-0,
jisx0212.1990-0		 16, 18, 24  
ifntjapb japanese jisx0208.1983-0,
jisx0212.1990-0		 32, 48, 40  
baekmuk korean ksc5601.1987-0,
ksx1001.1998-0		 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24 bold, italic and bold-italic styles
xfntkr korean ksc5601.1987-0,
johab-1,
johabsh-1		 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24  
844-ksc-pcf korean ksc5601.1987-0 16  
ifntchia chinese
(traditional and simplified)		 big5,
big5.eten-0,
cns11643.1992-{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}		 16, 24  
ifntchib chinese
(traditional and simplified)		 gb2312.1980-0,
cns11643.1992-{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}		 40, 48  

the package efont-unicode contains a very useful set of fonts covering most of unicode including the cjk region. the glyphs in these fonts are designed according to japanese preferences. therefore they may not be optimal for chinese, although they contain all necessary glyphs.

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2005-03-09