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Release Name: 0.4.23 (kwafoo beta)
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Wen Quan Yi Zen Hei
Release Notes
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Dedication:
To Chinese New Year 2008: Year of The Golden Rat
To those who are fighting against the worst snow storm in China
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Summary:
Author : Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project Contributors
Webpage : http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/
Font Name: WenQuanYi Zen Hei
Version : 0.4.23 (Kwafoo beta)
Release : 2
Copyright © 2007-2008, Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project
Board of Trustees, All rights reserved
License : GPL v2 (with font embedding exception **)
Read COPYING for details
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Acknowledgment:
This font contains the Latin/Hangul glyphs from
un-fonts (UnDotum), Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Koanughi Un
The Bopomofo glyphs U3100-U3127 were imported from GPL font
cwTeX (cwming.ttf), Copyright (c) 1999,2004 Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu.
Copyright (c) 2005 Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Edward G.J. Lee.
This font embedded bitmap glyphs from
"firefly bitmap fonts" [2], Copyright (c) 2004, Firefly
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Born Free
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Table of Content
I. About this font
II. Credits
III. Language Coverage
IV. About "The WenQuanYi Project"
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I. About this font
The WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a Hei-Ti style (sans-serif type)
Chinese outline font. It was designed for general purpose text
formatting and on-screen display of Chinese characters among
many other languages. The embolden strokes of the font glyphs
produces enhanced screen contrast, likely resulting in
improvement in reading speed and recognition. The embedded
bitmap glyphs further enhance on-screen performance,
which could be enabled with the provided configuration files.
WenQuanYi Zen Hei provides fairly complete coverage to Chinese
Hanzi glyphs including both simplified and traditional forms.
The total glyph number in this font is over 35,000, including over
21,000 Chinese Hanzi. This font provides full coverage to
GBK(CP936) charset, CJK Unified Ideographs, as well as the
code-points needed for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk, zh_mo,
ja (Japanese) and ko (Korean) locales for fontconfig.
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II. Credits
1. The spline Hanzi glyphs were created by Qianqian Fang (FangQ).
2. The Hanzi stroke data were developed by numerous contributors
over the past 3 years. Particularly, ailantian, niqiu, FangQ,
twang467, zxpmyth, luoyuwen and farm are the key contributors.
3. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Hangul, kana, latin etc are merged from
UnDotum from the un-fonts project (http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/),
this font was released under GPL.
4. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi
contributors and FangQ based on the bitmap fonts by firefly [2].
The 12pt Chinese glyphs are copies of the Chinese National Standard
GB19966 [3]. The detailed credit for this font can be found at
http://wenq.org/index.cgi?FirstEmperor_ChangeLog
5. The font file was created by Fontforge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/),
developed by George Williams.
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III. Language Coverage
The following table is based on the locale data provided by fontconfig
(generated by langcover.pl from Dejavu Project
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Font_utilities).
ZenHei
aa Afar 100% (62/62)
ab Abkhazia 75% (68/90)
af Afrikaans 100% (69/69)
am Amharic (0/264)
ar Arabic (0/125)
as (0/89)
ast Asturian 100% (72/72)
ava Avaric 100% (67/67)
ay Aymara 100% (60/60)
az Azerbaijani 85% (127/148)
az-ir Azerbaijani in Iran (0/130)
ba Bashkir 78% (64/82)
bam Bambara 90% (54/60)
be Byelorussian 100% (68/68)
bg Bulgarian 100% (60/60)
bh Bihari (Devanagari script) (0/68)
bho Bhojpuri (Devanagari script) (0/68)
bi Bislama 100% (58/58)
bin Edo or Bini 92% (72/78)
bn Bengali (0/89)
bo Tibetan (0/95)
br Breton 100% (64/64)
bs Bosnian 85% (53/62)
bua Buriat (Buryat) 94% (66/70)
ca Catalan 100% (74/74)
ce Chechen 100% (67/67)
ch Chamorro 100% (58/58)
chm Mari (Lower Cheremis / Upper Cheremis) 86% (66/76)
chr Cherokee (0/85)
co Corsican 100% (85/85)
cs Czech 80% (66/82)
cu Old Church Slavonic 71% (74/103)
cv Chuvash 89% (66/74)
cy Welsh 87% (68/78)
da Danish 100% (70/70)
de German 100% (60/60)
dz Dzongkha (0/95)
el Greek 100% (70/70)
en English 100% (73/73)
eo Esperanto 81% (52/64)
es Spanish 100% (67/67)
et Estonian 93% (60/64)
eu Basque 100% (56/56)
fa Persian (0/129)
fi Finnish 93% (59/63)
fj Fijian 100% (52/52)
fo Faroese 100% (68/68)
fr French 100% (85/85)
ful Fulah (Fula) 87% (54/62)
fur Friulian 100% (66/66)
fy Frisian 100% (75/75)
ga Irish 77% (62/80)
gd Scots Gaelic 100% (70/70)
gez Ethiopic (Geez) (0/218)
gl Galician 100% (66/66)
gn Guarani 94% (66/70)
gu Gujarati (0/78)
gv Manx Gaelic 100% (54/54)
ha Hausa 86% (52/60)
haw Hawaiian 92% (58/63)
he Hebrew (0/27)
hi Hindi (Devanagari script) (0/68)
ho Hiri Motu 100% (52/52)
hr Croatian 85% (53/62)
hu Hungarian 94% (66/70)
hy Armenian (0/77)
ia Interlingua 100% (52/52)
ibo Igbo 89% (52/58)
id Indonesian 100% (54/54)
ie Interlingue 100% (52/52)
ik Inupiaq (Inupiak, Eskimo) 100% (68/68)
io Ido 100% (52/52)
is Icelandic 100% (70/70)
it Italian 100% (73/73)
iu Inuktitut (0/161)
ja Japanese 100% (6538/6538)
ka Georgian (0/33)
kaa Kara-Kalpak (Karakalpak) 84% (66/78)
ki Kikuyu 92% (52/56)
kk Kazakh 84% (65/77)
kl Greenlandic 95% (77/81)
km Khmer (0/70)
kn Kannada (0/80)
ko Korean 100% (2443/2443)
kok Kokani (Devanagari script) (0/68)
ks Kashmiri (Devanagari script) (0/68)
ku Kurdish 90% (58/64)
ku-ir Kurdish in Iran (0/32)
kum Kumyk 100% (66/66)
kv Komi (Komi-Permyak/Komi-Siryan) 97% (68/70)
kw Cornish 89% (57/64)
ky Kirgiz 94% (66/70)
la Latin 83% (57/68)
lb Luxembourgish (Letzeburgesch) 100% (75/75)
lez Lezghian (Lezgian) 100% (67/67)
ln Lingala 90% (73/81)
lo Lao (0/65)
lt Lithuanian 75% (53/70)
lv Latvian 73% (57/78)
mg Malagasy 100% (56/56)
mh Marshallese 88% (55/62)
mi Maori 89% (57/64)
mk Macedonian 90% (38/42)
ml Malayalam (0/78)
mn Mongolian (0/130)
mo Moldavian 95% (122/128)
mr Marathi (Devanagari script) (0/68)
mt Maltese 91% (66/72)
my Burmese (Myanmar) (0/48)
nb Norwegian Bokmal 100% (70/70)
nds Low Saxon 100% (59/59)
ne Nepali (Devanagari script) (0/68)
nl Dutch 100% (83/83)
nn Norwegian Nynorsk 100% (76/76)
no Norwegian (Bokmal) 100% (70/70)
ny Chichewa 100% (54/54)
oc Occitan 100% (70/70)
om Oromo or Galla 100% (52/52)
or Oriya (0/79)
os Ossetic 100% (66/66)
pa Punjabi (Gurumukhi script) (0/63)
pl Polish 81% (57/70)
ps-af Pashto in Afghanistan (0/49)
ps-pk Pashto in Pakistan (0/49)
pt Portuguese 100% (83/83)
rm Rhaeto-Romance (Romansch) 100% (66/66)
ro Romanian 90% (56/62)
ru Russian 100% (66/66)
sa Sanskrit (Devanagari script) (0/68)
sah Yakut 86% (66/76)
sco Scots 92% (52/56)
se North Sami 89% (59/66)
sel Selkup (Ostyak-Samoyed) 100% (66/66)
sh Serbo-Croatian 100% (76/76)
si Sinhala (Sinhalese) (0/77)
sk Slovak 80% (69/86)
sl Slovenian 85% (53/62)
sm Samoan 100% (53/53)
sma South Sami 100% (60/60)
smj Lule Sami 100% (60/60)
smn Inari Sami 89% (61/68)
sms Skolt Sami 78% (63/80)
so Somali 100% (52/52)
sq Albanian 100% (56/56)
sr Serbian 100% (76/76)
sv Swedish 100% (68/68)
sw Swahili 100% (52/52)
syr Syriac (0/45)
ta Tamil (0/48)
te Telugu (0/80)
tg Tajik 84% (66/78)
th Thai (0/87)
ti-er Eritrean Tigrinya (0/256)
ti-et Ethiopian Tigrinya (0/282)
tig Tigre (0/221)
tk Turkmen 89% (66/74)
tl Tagalog (0/19)
tn Tswana 100% (56/56)
to Tonga 100% (53/53)
tr Turkish 92% (65/70)
ts Tsonga 100% (52/52)
tt Tatar 86% (66/76)
tw Twi 79% (58/73)
tyv Tuvinian 94% (66/70)
ug Uighur (0/125)
uk Ukrainian 97% (70/72)
ur Urdu (0/145)
uz Uzbek 88% (60/68)
ven Venda 83% (52/62)
vi Vietnamese 43% (85/194)
vo Volapuk 100% (54/54)
vot Votic 93% (58/62)
wa Walloon 100% (70/70)
wen Sorbian languages (lower and upper) 76% (58/76)
wo Wolof 100% (66/66)
xh Xhosa 100% (52/52)
yap Yapese 100% (58/58)
yi Yiddish (0/27)
yo Yoruba 77% (92/119)
zh-936 GBK Chinese national standard 100% (21921/21920)
zh-cn Chinese (simplified) 100% (6765/6765)
zh-hk Chinese Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set 100% (2213/2213)
zh-mo Chinese in Macau 100% (2213/2213)
zh-sg Chinese in Singapore 100% (6765/6765)
zh-tw Chinese (traditional) 100% (13063/13063)
zu Zulu 100% (52/52)
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IV. About The WenQuanYi Project
The Wen Quan Yi Project[1] was founded by Qianqian Fang[5] in
Oct. 2004. The goal of this project is to create a highly efficient
collaborative environment for open-source type-face development.
The initial focus of the project is to create high quality bitmap
character glyphs and outline fonts for all 70,000+ CJK characters
currently encoded by the Unicode Consortium.
The Wen Quan Yi Project uses Wiki[1] as the primary
development tool for glyph creation, documentation
and coordinations. The Wen Quan Yi wiki also supports
glyph CVS and nightly build.
The embodiment of the project consists of a
"Steering Committee" by the core members, a "Team B"
for bitmap Chinese font development and a "Team V"
for outline font development. Need to mention, a large
number of anonymous contributors also participate in our
development through our Wiki website and their
contributions are non-negligible.
[1] The WenQuanYi Project Homepage
http://wqy.sourceforge.net/ (Chinese version)
http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/ (English version)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/ (Sourceforge project)
http://wenq.org/ (Development site)
http://wenq.org/forum/ (User forum)
http://wenq.org/gallery/ (Screenshot gallery)
[2] Firefly bitmap font
http://www.study-area.org/apt/firefly-font/
[3] Chinese National Standard GB19966-2005 (mandatory)
http://www.standardcn.com/standard_plan/list_standard_content.asp?
stand_id=GB@19966-2005
[4] The Unicode Consortium
http://www.unicode.org/
[5] Qianqian Fang homepage
http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~fangq/
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As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this
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do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
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Changes:
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Wen Quan Yi Zen Hei
ChangeLog
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WenQuanYi Zen Hei ChangeLog:
2007/02/11 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (Kwafoo-beta 0.4.23-1):
1. created more reference glyphs, added 863 new glyphs
(Bopomofo)
U312A,U312B,U312C
(CJK Compatibility Glyphs)
UF900-UFAD9
(CJK Compatibility Supplement)
U2F800-U2FA1D
(Kanbun glyphs)
U3192-U319F
(CJK radicals)
U2E80-U2EF3
(Extended Bopomofo)
U31B4-U31B7
KangXi radicals (U2F00-U2FD5) were replaced by references.
2. release 0.4.23-1 as the beta version of Kwafoo
2007/02/08 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (0.4.23.cvs20070208):
1. documentation updates
2. set hintnone as default in 44-wqy-zenhei.conf
2007/02/04 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (0.4.23.cvs20070204):
1. create combined glyphs using references, added 363 new glyphs
(enclosed CJK glyphs)
U3220-U3243, U3280-U32B0, U32D0-U32FE
(Chinese dates)
U32C0-U32CB
(Chinese time)
U3358-U3370
(Japanese year)
U337B-U337E
(Chinese months)
U33E0-U33FE
(Yin yang symbols)
U4DC0-U4DFF
(Basic Yin Yang symbols)
U2630-U2637
(Tai Xuanjing Symbols)
U1D300-U1D356
2. added U0251 U0261 U02CA U02CB U2010 U2016 U2035
U2105 U2215 U221F U2223 U2236 U2237 U2248
U224C U2266 U2267 U226E U226F U2295 U22BF U301E
till now, complete all CP936 (GBK) code-points
3. added U309D and U309E, completed ja locale
2007/01/13 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (0.4.23):
1. balance two feet of square structures
2. narrow ends for flat P/WP
3. SG/HZG/etc extended downward slightly
4. balance two feet for symmetric P/N or HP/N or SP/N structures
5. optimize HZWG when the second segment is vertical
6. automatically calculate H/S thickness based on glyph info
7. fix bug for HanZiTou, such as in U9A9E
8. compress BaoGaiTou
9. improved margin algorithm
2007/12/27 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (zixiao 0.2.20):
1. allow H-strokes and S-strokes to have different stroke thicknesses
2. major improvement in glyph quality
3. fix buggy glyph U9531
2007/12/26 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (zixiao 0.2.19):
1. significant improvement in glyph look-n-feel
2. automatic margin calculation and edge alignment
3. enlarged "CJK period" U3002
4. added U9FA6-U9FBB glyphs
5. adjusted glyphs extended outside BBX
6. scaled Hangul glyphs to 1024
7. optimized SG,HZG,SZZG,HZZZG,D,SW,SWG,P and WP
8. D allows curved shapes
9. assigned -1 for all Hangul ligatures, rather than using PUA
10. thousands of glyphs were optimized by contributors
2007/09/15 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (zixiao 0.2.15):
1. removed cm-unicode and M+fonts, use un-dotum for non-CJK glyphs instead
2. optimize fontforge scripts and reduce broken splines
3. complete all code-points needed for zh_cn/zh_sg/zh_tw/zh_hk/zh_mo
4. first public release
2007/08/12 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (zixiao 0.2.10):
1. use X11 fonts, cm-unicode and M+fonts, for Latin/Japanese support
2. optimize "square" structures
3. improve font alignment by re-scaling in fontforge
4. incorporate 300+ updated vector glyphs
5. hand-draw Chinese table-making characters
6. use the latest nightly build (west yard) for the embedded bitmap glyphs
7. include BlueValues and a few other settings in Font Information
8. further thicken the font strokes for 20 percent
9. improve PN and TPN
2007/07/14 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (alpha-pre-zixiao3 0.1.7):
1. complete zh_hk/zh_mo coverage by hand-drawing 214 new characters
2. embed wenquanyi bitmap song bitmap glyphs for 9-12pt
3. add 4 new non-cjk glyphs 0x0178->co,fr, 0x02BB->sm,to, 0x0175->ny, 0x0174->ny
and complete the coverage for locales fr,sm,ny and to
4. delete hinting information, which cause distortion of the fonts
5. set the stroke width to 60
6. change encoding from unicode BMP to iso10646-1 to accommodate a
single Hongkong Hanzi in CJK Extension B.
2007/07/07 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (alpha-pre-zixiao2 0.1.6):
1. identify the missing characters for various zh_* locales
2. complete zh_cn/zh_sg coverage by adding glyph ˉ
3. complete zh_tw coverage by hand-drawing the following characters
甮兀钀瓡蔠媊詫
簃誧鐎穄涺緀鬞
搕挓眃鰭瞴黵翃
璯昍亙萰篜瑿渳
縈銕緮猏郔諳齕
髳嶞嗀餾嗎瀙鄈
4. add hinting/auto-instr information with fontforge
5. re-do about 50 ugly characters picked by testers
2007/06/19 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (alpha-pre-zixiao1 0.1.5):
1. first release for internal review
2. re-do ~600 GBK characters
3. including 19916 CJK Hanzi, merge with UnDotum
4. stroke width set to 50, optimize SG, SWG,HZG,HZWG etc
2007/06/03 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (pre alpha 0.1.2):
1. re-do 220 GB2312 glyphs
2. code polishing and stroke style adjustment
2007/05/26 Qianqian Fang (fangqq#gmail_com) (pre alpha 0.1.1):
1. developer's first working prototype
2. remove 300 low-quality GB2312 glyphs and 600 GBK glyphs
3. code optimization and automation
4. fontforge script development
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