Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Qianqian Fang wrote:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> It's good enough to read the character but if I designed a theme with
>> this character in some large caption I would immediately start looking
>> for a font that has a decent glyph for this character. It's far from
>> nice to look at.
>>   
>
> I was talking about "rasterization quality", do you mean
> the aesthetics of the glyph topology/structure?
>
> However, I am pretty sure you don't need to worry about
> "灱" because it is an extremely rarely used character and
> was only used in ancient literatures. As a matter of fact,
> in the over 20,000 Han char. included in the fonts I mentioned,
> the top 3,000~4,000 covers 99.6% of the use in modern Chinese [1].
>
Is it possible to have a font with only these characters plus if
necessary some computer-specific characters? I don't expect users to
write poems in grub and so such reduced font would be well-suited for
applications when size matters (e.g. embedding grub2 into flash rom)
Another question: are glyphs imported into unifont from ttf fonts are
vector-based?
And also I would like to thank you and Michal that you answered most of
the questions I had about Chinese support even without me asking them :)
> [1] http://www.jiyili.net/thread-27521-1-1.html   (based on a national
> survey in 1980s)
>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michal
>>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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