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

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

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...


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

-- 
-bill!
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