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[Nir Rostoker]

Hi !
Thanks for replying my question regarding Korean true Type fonts. 
My intention is to display Korean fonts on a real time application, and font
sizes of hundreds of Kbytes are too much for me.
To your knowledge can I display normal Korean fonts ( I mean fonts that are
used normally by Korean on Electronic display ,like Cellular phones or PDAs)
with normal TTF file size (like western ones) around 50-100K ? 
As far as I understood the Sora font will not be seem normal to most Korean
people ? 
Do you think of an option for a light TTF file that will seem like normal
Korean font ?

Thanks a lot, 

Nir 



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   1. Re: True type Korean fonts (Antoine Leca)

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:35:34 +0100
From: Antoine Leca <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Freetype] True type Korean fonts

Hi Nir,

Nir Rostoker wrote:
> 
> does anyone know of .ttf file of Korean fonts that is quite small ?

Well, I have here a 34K font (name is SoraWin). It is badly hinted,
but correctly hinted it should be about 50K big.

The point is, the glyphs are jamos, not normal Korean characters.
So to use it, you type ql, and you ket the syllable ka. And with
qLQ, you get kak; if you know Korean, you will understand the
trick: q if the glyph for (upper) k; l is the glyph -a, when alone;
and L is for -a-, that is, when there is another glyph below; and
Q is for -k, that is the below form of the k.
Of course, as a result, there is no difference between the k in
ka and the k in say kin, which results in something quite difficult
to read for any casual Korean...

> As far as I have seen the average size is around 1000K which is huge....
> Does anyone know where can I find much smaller font files ?

I do not believe you'll find anything useful that will be smaller;
in fact, the ones I have here are more in the 3-5M size rather than
1M. Of course, this is probably because they have all these
Hanja characters... Only Hangul can be probably much lighter, but it
then depends on your needs...


Antoine




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