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SVG - Request installation WenQuanYi ZenHei for better Chinese gothic fonts rendering
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Author: sst.dreams

Description:
WenQuanYi ZenHei (文泉驿正黑) is a Chinese/Japanese/Korean gothic font, licensed as "GPLv2 with font embedding exception", providing a great free East Asian gothic typeface solution, especially for Traditional/Simplified Chinese.

Recently the need of Chinese SVG diagrams is increased and many people converted unfree fonts like Microsoft JhengHei/YaHei (distributed with Vista/Office '07) or LeiHeiPro (from MacOS X) to path to get a gothic typeface. It is a very bad workaround, and WenQuanYi ZenHei may solve this problem. So I think Wikimedia server should install this fonts for SVG.

The latest version 0.5 "Kwafoo" is available in Debian/Ubuntu repos, the package for FC 7/8/9 is available as "wqy-zenhei-fonts".

Version: unspecified
Severity: trivial
URL: http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:04 PM
• bzimport added projects: Wikimedia-Site-requests, Shell.
• bzimport set Reference to bz13716.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Apr 12 2008, 5:29 PM
siebrand added a comment.Aug 18 2008, 9:48 PM

Component: General -> Site requests
Keywords: shell

If I read things correctly, the requester would like to have the font WenQuanYi ZenHei (文泉驿正黑), which has a free license, installed on the Wikimedia servers, so that it will be possible to use it in PNG renderings of SVG files.

• bzimport added a comment.Jan 18 2009, 12:14 PM

firejackey wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Component: General -> Site requests
Keywords: shell

If I read things correctly, the requester would like to have the font WenQuanYi
ZenHei (文泉驿正黑), which has a free license, installed on the Wikimedia
servers, so that it will be possible to use it in PNG renderings of SVG files.

yes

• bzimport added a comment.Mar 1 2009, 3:16 PM

PhiLiP.NPC wrote:

See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SVG_fonts.

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