Japanese font conf for JDK16 to use IPA font

[Greg Lewis]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:01:31PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2009 11:59 am, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > On Friday 27 February 2009 12:51 am, Daichi GOTO wrote:
> > > Hi greg :)
> > >
> > > How about to deploy or integrate included fontconfig.properties
> > > file to /usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties or
> > > /usr/local/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties.src.
> > >
> > > I have known some Japanese java developers have been giving up to
> > > use FreeBSD and Java as their default development environment
> > > because FreeBSD JDK16 default configurations lacks of proper
> > > Japanese font setting.
> > >
> > > Right now, IPA font(japanese/ipa-ttfonts) is proper high quality
> > > font as Japanese font. To enable that font as default font makes
> > > a lot of sense.
> > >
> > > I have checked included one with JDK16 and OpenJDK6, that looks
> > > like working well.
> >
> > I have been using the attached properties for korean fonts for many
> > years, which uses korean/unfonts-ttf.  Baekmuk fonts in your
> > properties are unmaintained and obsolete.  Un-series fonts are de
> > facto standard for korean FOSS projects these days.  One of the
> > reasons is it works pretty well with Freetype2.  I believe many
> > FOSS projects still use Baekmuk because Redhat does. :-(
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112877
> 
> It is little OT but I found Fedora project approved Un-series fonts as 
> the next default korean fonts:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UN_fonts
> 
> "Fontconfig has been changed upstream to use UN as default Korean font 
> set instead of Baekmuk (current Fedora Korean font)."
> 
> Yeah!

So which Korean fonts should we be using?  The new ones or the ones in
the fontconfig.properties you sent?  I'd like to merge those changes
with Daichi-san's and get them both committed :).

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