Comic Fonts again...

Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Tue Apr 13 20:54:45 UTC 2004


  Hello,

  I must have missed the discussion in January(?).

> * The StrikeFonts are in MacRoman encoding; this doesn't work well for the 
> m17n work (where Latin-1 is preferred).

  If we get glyphs for characters that are in latin-1 but not in
MacRoman, This should be ok.

> * The StrikeFonts do not have international glyphs (especially Japanese).

  Ah, not all fonts have to cover all the range.  It is perfectly fine
that a font only covers 256 or whatever number of characters.

> I think we should remove ComicSansMS (see below) and find (or construct) a 
> replacement, licensed or freely distributable, TrueType font that is suitable 
> for Etoys and that includes a wider set of glyphs.

  Probably the conclusion here is the same, but don't worry about
wider set of glyphs too much.

  For Japanese, some people tried Mika-chan font for alternative *fun*
look (http://mikachan-font.com/index2.html).  Now, I might consider
this as the default eToys look...

-- Yoshiki



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