Re: [Tuxpaint-users] TuxPaint text area default font

[Frank W. (a.k.a. Franklin) <fra...@go...>]

Bill Kendrick 在 2009 年 06 月 03 日 Wednesday 08:32:44 時寫道：
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:16:29AM +0800, Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin) 
wrote:
> > That's what confused me.  QX and qx should be Traditional Chinese
> > characters, but what characters should we fill?  Any Chinese character,
> > or still QX but of what we said "full type" (Not ASCII "QX", but
> > multi-byte characters, just that still QX)?  For zh_TW users, we used
> > ASCII characters as well as full-type characters.  I still cannot see how
> > you "score" if we fill another full-type characters instead of full-type
> > QX.
>
> In the case of "QX" and "qx" 'translations', they must successfully blit
> for us to include the font _at all_.  Well, more precisely, either
> "QX" and "qx" _OR_ "QY" and "qy".
>
> So in the case of Traditional Chinese, "QX" and "qx" should be translated
> into 'something in Traditional Chinese.'  And since you can use ASCII as
> well, "QY" and "qy" can simply be 'translated' to the ASCII characters "QY"
> and "qy". (Or not translated at all, but in that case, the translation
> looks incomplete.)
>
> As for which Traditional Chinese characters should be entered as the
> 'translation' of "QX" and "qy", I'm not entirely sure.  Enough to make it
> distinct from other fonts that might include _some_ Traditional Chinese
> characters.  (Simplified Chinese?  Maybe even Japanese?  I'm not clear
> the relationships, esp. when it comes to how they are mapped in Unicode :)
> )
>
> > Almost the same, only a little different.  However, we have the same
> > problem. In Traditional Chinese characters (both BIG5 and UTF8), we have
> > "half-type" (ASCII) and "full-type" (multi-byte) characters for the same
> > symbols (for example, comma in ASCII is ",", and in full-type is "???")
> >
> > We may need further informations for scoring zh_TW fonts.
>
> Which is the more common way of entering punctuation?  Remember that in
> these cases, we're only improving the score of a font, note deciding
> whether or not it should be removed.
>
> If ASCII "," is more often used, then the zh_TW 'full-type' could be
> placed in the 'uncommon punctuation', perhaps...

Well, it's difficult to say which one is more common to use.  I used full-type 
punctuation when type a Chinese article, but not everyone did this way...

> Thanks!  (And remember that _I'm_ still trying to understand how all this
> is supposed to work, since I didn't write it! :^) )

OK, I updated a new zh_TW in

http://www.goodhorse.idv.tw/zh_TW.po

I just updated qx/QX to a Chinese sentence and uncommon punctuation to our 
full-type punctuation..

Please see if it was helpful.

Thanks,
Franklin