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I'm removing for the time being the category "Pan-Unicode" from the list. This is because it's an inaccurate and arbitrary classification in the context of this article (and it even violates
Wikipedia:No original research).
Some problems off the top of my head:
Not all of the "Pan-Unicode" fonts listed are CJK fonts
Nor are they really "Pan-Unicode" in the sense that they cover most or all of Unicode
WenQuanYi Zen Hei and Micro Hei do have good coverage (they list impressive numbers on their site), but are listed simply as "Chinese"
No font containing Chinese characters can avoid choosing a particular style for han-unified characters, unless it mixes several styles; therefore the classification "Pan-Unicode" doesn't mean anything.
Code2000, which was listed as "Pan-Unicode" must be listed as Chinese, Korean or Japanese, according to the style which it uses.
By the way, the same is also true of Gnu Unifont, if it's true that it contains Hanzi characters from WenQuanYi. It should be listed according to its chosen style of characters, if that's how it's done in this list. No font can have a "Pan-Unicode" character style, unless they've invented their own.
Rōnin (
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12:26, 8 November 2011 (UTC)reply
I've researched a little and used a little guesswork to try to put the fonts back in the correct categories. However, I can't find out what style of characters
Code2000 uses, and I don't know if
Bitstream Cyberbit supports Chinese characters at all.
Rōnin (
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12:47, 8 November 2011 (UTC)reply
I don't see the "pan-Unicode" is an original research. I can even give you refereces such as
this page,
Unicode#Fonts also gives some definition of it. But if you put something like
GNU Unifont in the "Chinese" category, this does violate
WP:No original research. It is definitely not true that GNU Unifont was designed for Chinese. The fonts, which are not targeted to a specific writing system and may want to "keep neutre" among these systems, exist for real, these are pan-Unicode font.
Pan-Unicode font is not categorically equal to
Unicode font. A pan-Unicode font is a font which attempts to support the majority of Unicode's characters. An Unicode font is a font which contains a wide range of glyphs, but it may or may not intend to support the majority of Unicode's characters. You can assume "pan-Unicode font
⊂ Unicode font". Wenquanyi Zen Hei is an Unicode font, but it's not very wise to consider it pan-Unicode. Most of the Pan-Unicode fonts are not very "good looking" such as
GNU Unifont.
This article (open it then click the "Pan-Unicode Fonts" tab) discusses that the pan-Unicode fonts become less and less useful due to the increasing number of Free and open-source Unicode fonts.
Most of pan-Unicode fonts are CJK fonts (if that is unclear, let's define "CJK font" as "computer fonts which cover (at least) most of the Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters"), if an Unicode or pan-Unicode font is listed in this article, it is a CJK font for sure.
Whoooops, sorry; I looked at the WenQuanYi fonts in FontForge just now, and you're right about them not supporting that many character ranges after all. Sorry for sounding so self-righteous about it without even checking first. To my defence, I did look at the readmes for the fonts, but I got the wrong impression. Anyway, I'm reverting the page back to your latest version, as I can't remember which of the changes I made were justified and which weren't.
Rōnin (
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18:17, 8 November 2011 (UTC)reply
The title
It should be renamed to List of CJK fonts.
These are obviously CJK computer fonts, and they are sorted by their
typeface styles.
And why the word "computer" was removed from the title? "
CJK" is used in the field of software and communications internationalization; "font" is short for "
computer fonts". So, there is no ambiguity for "CJK fonts", "CJK fonts" is equivalent to "CJK computer fonts", and is used more widely. --
Tomchen1989 (
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19:29, 23 February 2011 (UTC)reply
Yes. Moreover, 'NPOV is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia and of other Wikimedia projects. This policy is nonnegotiable and all editors and articles must follow it'. So what ?
Pldx1 (
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20:18, 4 June 2013 (UTC)reply
No, it is a very very useful data point for encyclopedic info. The license is by far one of the most important points to list. This isn't pushing or promoting anything - it is simply conveying extremely useful and relevant information. — Preceding
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You're welcome. It is not advisable to merge all tables under one style as it can become enormous to be edited by anyone. I have separated them by language, and removed 2 columns (localization and style), and added localization column for Chinese fonts to ease the reader. The column for style is removed as it is redundant under the same style. In others I have removed only 1 column (localization) as it is quite messy and contain different style of fonts.
NFSL2001 (
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11:29, 24 March 2021 (UTC)reply
I think merging the tables would increase the added value from table's sort capability. It will also harmonize's columns widths. I let you work as you wish for now, I will see if I can improve further later on, in April.
Yug(talk)14:37, 24 March 2021 (UTC)reply
The table are only sortable by names and license, it is almost unsortable using other columns; few rows have actual descriptions or it is mixed with sentence. Mixing between different languages IMO is unadvisable as different writing strokes/glyph shapes exist between these standards. (I would actually suggest separating SC/TC but as some SC font also support TC... it's almost always a mess to deal with.
NFSL2001 (
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14:48, 24 March 2021 (UTC)reply
1) I think we should harmonize the "Editor" title, into something "Designer/Creator" maybe.
2) I would encourage to keep or move to one row = one font file, with a system of reference to the serie, which can contain wider comments. Maybe by moving the individual fonts into the respective sections, and by creating a "font series" table on the bottom of the page.
This would allows better sorting. For the same reason I'am also of the opinion 3) we should refrain from merging cells even when content is identical.
Yug(talk)11:45, 25 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Acceptable. Maybe 4) adding one H3 in Ming/Song and Sans-serif (should be Hei/Gothic depending on C or J) section indicating operating system fonts such as Windows and Mac.
NFSL2001 (
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11:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)reply
On 1), it appears you harmonized all title but one. I corrected this last item.
On 2), I created a
#Font series section, moving in this section all "series" I quickly noticed. I forgot some but a search of "serie" on the page guide us pretty one for future edits. I haven't dispatched the composing fonts into their respective sections yet, but will come as well.
All the article's items are now in table form with harmonized columns. More can still be done :
Merge tables by styles
Change column titles to fit the content better.
Review and balance the "Editor/Creator" and "Comments" columns better.
On the visual side, images snapshot are too diverses and requires harmonization. It would be wise to move to horizontal .png/.svg with CJK characters and conventional filenames,
see this example.
A discussion have been
started on Commons for this purpose.
Yug(talk)08:44, 21 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Disagreee to merge table by style for "Ming/Song", "Sans-serif" and "Others" section, agree for the rest. These regional fonts usually could not be used interchangably between regions due to glyph standards and Unicode coverage and should be separated by regional language. Exception could be made for system fonts (as previous comment thread) as system fonts usually have great Unicode coverage, which can be group separately in another table. Grouping in "Others" is just redundant and should be avoided as there are different style selections for different languaes. E.g. In SC, the four basic fonts are Song, Hei (Sans-serif), Kai (Regular script) and Fangsong, however in TC the four basic fonts are Song, Hei (Sans-serif), Kai (Regular script) and Li (Clerical script).