Dear lazy-web, where do I find…

… good TrueType-fonts for asian languages (mainly japanese, chinese, korean etc.) I can use to test some pango/cairo rendering? Also some non-nonsense example unicode-text (I know that’s obvious) in those languages would be nice… preferably non-insulting and non-offensive.

EDIT: I found some usable sample text in the pango-distribution (I should have started looking there first).

Thanks in advance!

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9 Responses to “Dear lazy-web, where do I find…”

  1. Silvan Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 11:54 am

    If you need more, I recommend http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator3 as nonsense exampl unicode text generator for japanese and chinese.

  2. Denis Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    Kochi/Sazanami for Japanese, Arphic for Chinese and Baekmuk for Korean. They should be apt-gettable, most of the are installed by default too?

  3. Lasse Bigum Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    Otherwise I’m quite sure that http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and their chinese/korean/etc counterparts have plenty of non nonsense text for you to use.

  4. Ming Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    For Chinese, a good choice is the Unicode MingTi and KaiTi fonts based on the fonts from Arphic:
    http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fCJKUnifonts

    Another place worth looking at is the Debian Installer‘s page about their choice of fonts for the GUI frontend:
    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIFonts
    They use special fonts for CJK but you can see where they get their font from.

  5. Jeff Martin Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    I found this page to give a resonable list of fonts.

    http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html

  6. kaeru Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    For unicode fonts that are suitable for FOSS, the following is a great resource page:

    http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/

  7. MacSlow Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    @ all: Thanks for the prompt replies!

  8. yosch Says:
    April 26th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    Check out also the FontPlayground for more sample texts in complex scripts languages: http://retina.ophthy.med.umich.edu/fontplayground/

  9. dahuang Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    I recommend the WenQuanYi Project which produce free CJK fonts as far as know

    http://www.wenq.org/index.cgi?FirstEmperor_README

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