Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Font scoring method

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

> Thanks. Added 'Yen' to spare-1a.

Sorry, don't bother. I just realized that Unicode unified
the Yen and Yuan, so you can't distinguish them. I had
incorrectly thought that one of the symbols had only
a single horizontal bar. I guess they look the same???

Also, the Yen symbol is in ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) and will thus
be available in many fonts that do not support Japanese.

>>I don't see all three Japanese glyph sets: katakana, hiragana, kanji
>
> I used two kanji in 'spare-1a' and one hiragana and one katakana in
> 'spare-9b'.
> I think this is enough for me so far.

Are there fonts that have hiragana but not katakana?
Are there fonts that have katakana but not hiragana?
If such fonts exist, you probably want to rank them below
the fonts that have both.

>>Is anything else required to downrate fonts that would render the
>>kanji in the Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, or Korean style?
>
> No, I don't think so, because there is no way to input kanji with text
> or label tool so far.

Oh. This might depend on the platform. (GNOME, KDE, MacOS...)
I thought the OS would provide an input method to handle kanji.

It's kind of a problem, isn't it? I know kids don't learn that first,
but eventually they will want to use kanji I think.

You could put the most important ones in a stamp collection.

Maybe this is terrible, but you could add an option to start Tux Paint
with all the ASCII letters mapped to kanji. That is enough for 52 of them.
Type an "A" and you get a kanji, etc.