Guest guest Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Well it seems the novelty of technology assisted translation has thankfully overtaken our preoccupation with SARS. I call it a novelty because it really is. Any serious work in terms of translation will require many hours outside of the computer. But it is a beautiful gateway, and anyone who doesn’t want to dive all the way in will at least have rudimentary access to the information via Wenlin type tools. (With luck even the reluctant will eventually get hooked!) Now that more of us are taking the language plunge it is likely that a member authored document or two may end up floating around the list (Jason’s recent yin fire essay for starters). Due to font issues Jason had to post his essay in PDF format though the characters would have been clearer in the native Word format. With that in mind, does anyone know of any good source(s) for Chinese True Type fonts so we can all access future documents as they are intended? I find fonts that look more like handwriting to be far easier to read since they don’t distort the radicals as much to make perfect little square characters. Please post any web sites that have free simplified or traditional Chinese fonts. Twinbridge comes with around 50 fonts, but only a few of them are appreciably different. I found the following site, but haven’t had a chance to dig through it yet on my 28.8 modem connection: http://ftp.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/CLE/fonts/ttf/unicode/ -Tim Sharpe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Isn't unicode the way to go? todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 > [ (AT) inet (DOT) .. > Isn't unicode the way to go? Yes, we definitely want to stick with the Unicode standard, though it is a standard, not an actual font itself. I think the idea is that each character is traceable to a fixed code (similar to ASCII codes for the geeks amongst us). In Twinbridge, all their Unicode compliant fonts begin with TSC. For example TSC “JSong” is a Unicode compliant simplified Chinese font. I’m not sure if this is Twinbridge’s nomenclature, or if it is universal. According to them, non Unicode compliant fonts typically begin with “Chn”. Within the Unicode standard there is considerable variability in the appearance of each font. With’s observation in mind, please post sights containing Unicode compliant fonts. - if I am mistaken in my comments above please let me know… Thanks, Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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