Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
I would think the trial and error, or just look at the font designers document (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_fonts).
Ah, great resource, thank you!
For Japanese, MS Mincho, MS UI Gothic, MS P Mincho or MS P Gothic, or on Vista or later Meiryo are the ones to use.
Yup, they look much better. A paragraph from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak rendered in MS UI Gothic attached.
Yes, this looks good!
BTW, one thing I was wondering about is how line breaking is assumed to work with CJK-scripts (or more generally with Unicode). Do you have any information on that? It seems that we're treating all of the CJK characters as non-breakable at this point which leads to odd effects when there are a few spaces included in the text.
Cheers, - Andreas