Japanese font conf for JDK16 to use IPA font

[Brian Gardner]

I'm talking about both, and agree with your assessment that since IPA is
the best japanese font, then I will use it in the FreeBSD port. I will
try to add it as a prereq for the Japan audience, so that users simply
install the port and get the best experience! I will be taking this
route with every langaunge. So far here is what I have going into the
next release:
JAPANESE - japanese/ipa-ttfonts
KOREAN - korean/unfonts-ttf


Daichi GOTO wrote:
> I know all that all you know. It's correct.
>
> But our talk has a difference in awareness, you know?
> I am talking about *A fontconfig.properties patch file
> in Ports Collection (java/jdk16, java/openjdk6)*, you
> are talking about *Back porting to OpenJDK6 original
> src tree*, right?
>
> I believe that JDK16/OpenJDK6 default japanese font setting
> of *PORTS COLLECTION* should be IPA font.  And setting
> default japanese font to VLgothic of *OpenJDK6 original src*
> is not best but validness.
>
> (JIMO, there should be any kind of fontconfig.properties
> of *OpenJDK6 original src*. ex, OS depends setting
> (fontconfig.FreeBSD.properties, fontconfig.Ubuntu.properties,
> fontconfig.OpenSolaris.properties, ...), font depend setting
> (fontconfig.properties-bitstream, fontconfig.properties-vl, ...)
> or something like that. Variation is important. Bacause
> user can use valid font config for their platform just copying
> a file if it has just suited).
>
> At last, I say again. I am talking about Ports Collection
> only. You are talking about back porting to OpenJDK6 original src,
> right?
>
> Maho NAKATA wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> From: Daichi GOTO <daichi at ongs.co.jp>
>> Subject: Re: Japanese font conf for JDK16 to use IPA font
>> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:17:36 +0900
>>
>>     
>>> Maho NAKATA wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Daichi san
>>>> Sorry for changing my mind...this is just suggestion.
>>>> IPA font is good but license is too restrictive.
>>>>         
>>> NO. That is old information. Please check latest IPAfont license.
>>> We can use it as default font right now I guess.
>>>       
>> Yes, I have checked the new one :)
>> For me, "free" means we can also redistribute modified fonts;
>> like IPA-mona-font http://www.geocities.jp/ipa_mona/ ,
>> M+ IPA font http://mix-mplus-ipa.sourceforge.jp/download.html
>> and IPA fonts from FreeBSD ports (actually this is M+IPA font).
>>
>> Note that they still employes older licence, because newer license has
>> restrictive clauses (第3条1).
>>
>>     
>>>> VLGothic is free font and ubuntu uses as user interface font.
>>>> Fallback to VLGothic may useful for some environment.
>>>>         
>>> NO. I do not think so.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu use VLGothic as default Japanese font since license issue,
>>> yes I know that. (JFYI, PC-BSD use it as default Japanese/Chinese
>>> font too, because of 1CD size limitation.)  But it is lead by
>>> Ubuntu *BINARY PACKAGE SITUATION* and their license policy, that is
>>> not affected to Ports Collection of FreeBSD.
>>>       
>> This part is correct. However, please aware that IPA font set is
>> not a free one. Policies can be different between Linux distributions;
>> Fedora won't be shipped with IPA fonts nor Ubuntu, etc. Situation is
>> quite different from gcc; almost every distribution can include gcc,
>> because it is a free software.
>> it's okay but may result incompatibility issue.
>>
>>     
>>> So I believe that IPA font should be used as default Japanese
>>> fonts on most situation, at least by Ports Collection.
>>> How do you make of that?
>>>       
>> It depends. If you and colleagues want to use FreeBSD, that's okay.
>> However if you work with other people who use Linux, it could result
>> some conflict. In any case, if there is a Windows or MacOSX guy,
>> we cannot avoid conflict :)
>>
>> At least VLgothic is a free one, and the worst case, it would be better
>> to have a fallback to VLgothic if IPA font is not present.
>>
>> Best
>> -- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/ , http://ja.openoffice.org/
>>    Nakata Maho's PGP public keys: http://accc.riken.jp/maho/maho.pgp.txt
>>     
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