Re: Seeking Chinese and Korean assistance with online Chinese character dictionary project

In message <ea2vlj$tua$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dylan Sung <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

"Richard Herring" <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message news:E$efYay7xMxEFwBa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In message <1153742690.840121.170680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
An author just sent us a couple of fonts used in his ms., and I don't
know how to install them.

Find Control Panel and open the Fonts folder. Then you just drag the font files from wherever you saved them into Fonts.

The proper way to do it, is to install the font. In WinXP:

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Fonts

Under Fonts, you now have to locate the folder you saved the .ttf (or whatever appropriate font file is). This is done from

Fonts
File > Install New Font

When you've located the folder/directory it is in, the window application senses the font files, and then you have to select those which you want to install. Once you've selected, just click on OK, and it will install those fonts.

While I'm not saying Richard's way is wrong,

It isn't, and it's just as "proper" as yours ;-) The Fonts folder is "magic", so just dragging a .ttf file into it has the same effect as doing File->Install. You'll see the "Install Font Progress" dialog box in just the same way.

you must realise that sometimes the font file (the true type font (*.ttf)) and the font face which you see in applications that use that font have different names. For instance, the Unicode font "Simsum (Founder Extended)" is downloaded as the file name "sursong.ttf".

But the "magic" of the Fonts folder automatically displays the long name, once you have installed it!

This file IIRC is somewhere around 35-40 megabytes.

40! Arial Unicode MS is only around 20, and that has almost everything in it from Armenian to Tibetan.

If you install this behemoth, you will have all the CJK characters CJK Ideographs, Extension A and Extension B save for those which are Vietnamese characters - chu nom, I think they are.... They will only appear as gaps, or rectangular boxes in applications that want to display such characters.


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Richard Herring
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