On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Mark Redar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Currently, we use the DejaVu font family for creating the pdfs. This has good coverage for latin & cyrillic characters but has no CJK (chinese-japanese-korean) coverage. We've looked into licensing a commercial fonts, but for web server use these require annual licensing fees that are substantial (in the thousands of $).
> A number of our source documents contain CJK characters and some contributors have noticed the lack of support for these characters.
If you're looking for CJK support in a FLOSS font, I've heard the best
option in terms of CJK coverage are the WenQuanYi [0] fonts, which
have full coverage (if I recall correctly).
As Andrew suggests, you can combine a number of fonts as well.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WenQuanYi
Mark
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