Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Yoshiki Ohshimayoshiki@vpri.org wrote:
At Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:05:30 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
Ah, that explains it. Is there a way of telling directly from the font which language(s) they are supposed to support? Or is this trial and error?
The font name is in the language. This works for me, since I lived in Korea and Japan, but not for foreigners in general. For example, on Linux, Batang, Dotum, and Baekmuk (바당, 도듬, 백묵) are Korean; Kaiti, Mingti, and Sungti (楷体, 明体,宋体 ) are Chinese; Kochi and Sazanami (こち, 故知; さざなみ, 細波) are Japanese. Educated natives of course recognize their own preferred font styles as readily as Americans can tell typewriter, serif, script, and black letter apart.
Yes, that makes of course sense. Even I can tell that there is *some* difference and with training I could probably learn to associate them correctly. Thanks for the info.
Cheers, - Andreas