Re: Chinese Simplified appearance

[Steve Underwood <steveu coppice org>]

Hi John,

Correct in what sense? Does the Chinese make sense? Yes, it generally 
reads OK. Does it look good? Obviously not. Does it look like Chinese 
normally comes out on Linux machines? Yes. Pretty much all Chinese on a 
Linux machin currently looks this bad. Things like Firefox seem to get 
the sizes more even, but the jumbling of bold and non-bold is similar.

The screen is in simplified Chinese. What seems to happen is where a 
traditional character looks the same as the simplified one, the 
character is taken from a traditional font, regardless of its quality of 
fit. This doesn't happen over the whole dialog box, though. The very 
first label, meaning customer, is the same in simplified and 
traditional. However, you can see the two characters have come from 
different fonts.

Regards,
Steve


Boncek, John wrote:

> Attached is a screen shot of a screen we are generating using Pango 
> with GTK 2.2.4.  It is a print preview screen with the printout mostly 
> in Chinese Simplified.  Does the Chinese look correct?  It looks to us 
> like Pango may have selected different sizes or boldness of fonts for 
> different characters in the same line in many cases.  Does it do this 
> automatically when the selected font size doesn't have all the 
> characters, or is there some other problem?
>
> <<ChinSimpPreview.png>>