========================================================== Wen Quan Yi Zen Hei Release Notes ---------------------------------------------------------- Dedication: To Three-Leg-Cat: The "cat" who has never stopped making this font better! ---------------------------------------------------------- Summary: Author : Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project Contributors Webpage : http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/ Font Name: WenQuanYi Zen Hei Version : 0.8.38 (Pangu) Release : 5 Copyright © 2007-2009, Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project Board of Trustees, All rights reserved License : GPL v2 (with font embedding exception **) Read COPYING for details ---------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgment: This font contains the Latin/Hangul glyphs from un-fonts (UnDotum), Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Koanughi Un The Bopomofo glyphs U3100-U3127 were imported from GPL font cwTeX (cwming.ttf), Copyright (c) 1999,2004 Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu. Copyright (c) 2005 Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Edward G.J. Lee. Part of the embedded bitmap glyphs were derived from "firefly bitmap fonts" [2], Copyright (c) 2004, Firefly The mono-spaced Latin glyphs were derived from M+ M2 Light Copyright (c) 2002-2008 M+ FONTS PROJECT ---------------------------------------------------------- Born Free ---------------------------------------------------------- Table of Content I. About this font II. Credits III. Language Coverage IV. About "The WenQuanYi Project" ---------------------------------------------------------- I. About this font WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a Hei-Ti style (sans-serif type) Chinese outline font. It is designed for general purpose text formatting and on-screen display of Chinese characters and symbols from many other languages. The embolden strokes of the font glyphs produces enhanced screen contrast, making it easier to read recognize. The embedded bitmap glyphs further enhance on-screen performance, which can be enabled with the provided configuration files. WenQuanYi Zen Hei provides a fairly complete coverage to Chinese Hanzi glyphs, including both simplified and traditional forms. The total glyph number in this font is over 35,000, including over 21,000 Chinese Hanzi. This font has full coverage to GBK(CP936) charset, CJK Unified Ideographs, as well as the code-points needed for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk, zh_mo, ja (Japanese) and ko (Korean) locales for fontconfig. Starting from version 0.8, this font package has contained two font families, i.e. the proportionally-spaced Zen Hei, and a mono-spaced face named "WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono". ---------------------------------------------------------- II. Credits 1. The spline Hanzi glyphs were created by Qianqian Fang (FangQ). 2. The Hanzi stroke data were developed by numerous contributors over the past 3 years. Particularly, ailantian, niqiu, FangQ, Three-leg-cat, hunter, lsz, pem, twang467, zxpmyth, luoyuwen, fujianwzh and farm are the key contributors. 3. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Hangul, kana, latin etc are merged from UnDotum from the un-fonts project (http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/), this font was released under GPL. 4. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and FangQ based on the bitmap fonts by firefly [2]. The 12pt Chinese glyphs are copies of the Chinese National Standard GB19966 [3]. The detailed credit for this font can be found at http://wenq.org/index.cgi?FirstEmperor_ChangeLog 5. The non-Hanzi glyphs for "Zen Hei Mono" were merged from M+ M Type-1 Light (http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/) 6. The font file was created by Fontforge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/), developed by George Williams. ---------------------------------------------------------- III. Language Coverage The following table is based on the locale data provided by fontconfig (generated by langcover.pl from Dejavu Project http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Font_utilities). ZenHei aa Afar 100% (62/62) ab Abkhazia 75% (68/90) af Afrikaans 100% (69/69) am Amharic (0/264) ar Arabic (0/125) as (0/89) ast Asturian 100% (72/72) ava Avaric 100% (67/67) ay Aymara 100% (60/60) az Azerbaijani 90% (134/148) az-ir Azerbaijani in Iran (0/130) ba Bashkir 78% (64/82) bam Bambara 100% (60/60) be Byelorussian 100% (68/68) bg Bulgarian 100% (60/60) bh Bihari (Devanagari script) (0/68) bho Bhojpuri (Devanagari script) (0/68) bi Bislama 100% (58/58) bin Edo or Bini 92% (72/78) bn Bengali (0/89) bo Tibetan (0/95) br Breton 100% (64/64) bs Bosnian 100% (62/62) bua Buriat (Buryat) 94% (66/70) ca Catalan 100% (74/74) ce Chechen 100% (67/67) ch Chamorro 100% (58/58) chm Mari (Lower Cheremis / Upper Cheremis) 86% (66/76) chr Cherokee (0/85) co Corsican 100% (85/85) cs Czech 100% (82/82) cu Old Church Slavonic 71% (74/103) cv Chuvash 91% (68/74) cy Welsh 89% (70/78) da Danish 100% (70/70) de German 100% (60/60) dz Dzongkha (0/95) el Greek 100% (70/70) en English 100% (73/73) eo Esperanto 100% (64/64) es Spanish 100% (67/67) et Estonian 100% (64/64) eu Basque 100% (56/56) fa Persian (0/129) fi Finnish 100% (63/63) fj Fijian 100% (52/52) fo Faroese 100% (68/68) fr French 100% (85/85) ful Fulah (Fula) 100% (62/62) fur Friulian 100% (66/66) fy Frisian 100% (75/75) ga Irish 82% (66/80) gd Scots Gaelic 100% (70/70) gez Ethiopic (Geez) (0/218) gl Galician 100% (66/66) gn Guarani 97% (68/70) gu Gujarati (0/78) gv Manx Gaelic 100% (54/54) ha Hausa 100% (60/60) haw Hawaiian 100% (63/63) he Hebrew (0/27) hi Hindi (Devanagari script) (0/68) ho Hiri Motu 100% (52/52) hr Croatian 100% (62/62) hu Hungarian 100% (70/70) hy Armenian (0/77) ia Interlingua 100% (52/52) ibo Igbo 89% (52/58) id Indonesian 100% (54/54) ie Interlingue 100% (52/52) ik Inupiaq (Inupiak, Eskimo) 100% (68/68) io Ido 100% (52/52) is Icelandic 100% (70/70) it Italian 100% (73/73) iu Inuktitut (0/161) ja Japanese 100% (6538/6538) ka Georgian (0/33) kaa Kara-Kalpak (Karakalpak) 84% (66/78) ki Kikuyu 100% (56/56) kk Kazakh 84% (65/77) kl Greenlandic 100% (81/81) km Khmer (0/70) kn Kannada (0/80) ko Korean 100% (2443/2443) kok Kokani (Devanagari script) (0/68) ks Kashmiri (Devanagari script) (0/68) ku Kurdish 90% (58/64) ku-ir Kurdish in Iran (0/32) kum Kumyk 100% (66/66) kv Komi (Komi-Permyak/Komi-Siryan) 97% (68/70) kw Cornish 100% (64/64) ky Kirgiz 94% (66/70) la Latin 100% (68/68) lb Luxembourgish (Letzeburgesch) 100% (75/75) lez Lezghian (Lezgian) 100% (67/67) ln Lingala 96% (78/81) lo Lao (0/65) lt Lithuanian 100% (70/70) lv Latvian 100% (78/78) mg Malagasy 100% (56/56) mh Marshallese 100% (62/62) mi Maori 96% (62/64) mk Macedonian 90% (38/42) ml Malayalam (0/78) mn Mongolian (0/130) mo Moldavian 100% (128/128) mr Marathi (Devanagari script) (0/68) mt Maltese 100% (72/72) my Burmese (Myanmar) (0/48) nb Norwegian Bokmal 100% (70/70) nds Low Saxon 100% (59/59) ne Nepali (Devanagari script) (0/68) nl Dutch 100% (83/83) nn Norwegian Nynorsk 100% (76/76) no Norwegian (Bokmal) 100% (70/70) ny Chichewa 100% (54/54) oc Occitan 100% (70/70) om Oromo or Galla 100% (52/52) or Oriya (0/79) os Ossetic 100% (66/66) pa Punjabi (Gurumukhi script) (0/63) pl Polish 100% (70/70) ps-af Pashto in Afghanistan (0/49) ps-pk Pashto in Pakistan (0/49) pt Portuguese 100% (83/83) rm Rhaeto-Romance (Romansch) 100% (66/66) ro Romanian 100% (62/62) ru Russian 100% (66/66) sa Sanskrit (Devanagari script) (0/68) sah Yakut 86% (66/76) sco Scots 100% (56/56) se North Sami 100% (66/66) sel Selkup (Ostyak-Samoyed) 100% (66/66) sh Serbo-Croatian 100% (76/76) si Sinhala (Sinhalese) (0/77) sk Slovak 100% (86/86) sl Slovenian 100% (62/62) sm Samoan 100% (53/53) sma South Sami 100% (60/60) smj Lule Sami 100% (60/60) smn Inari Sami 100% (68/68) sms Skolt Sami 100% (80/80) so Somali 100% (52/52) sq Albanian 100% (56/56) sr Serbian 100% (76/76) sv Swedish 100% (68/68) sw Swahili 100% (52/52) syr Syriac (0/45) ta Tamil (0/48) te Telugu (0/80) tg Tajik 84% (66/78) th Thai (0/87) ti-er Eritrean Tigrinya (0/256) ti-et Ethiopian Tigrinya (0/282) tig Tigre (0/221) tk Turkmen 89% (66/74) tl Tagalog (0/19) tn Tswana 100% (56/56) to Tonga 100% (53/53) tr Turkish 100% (70/70) ts Tsonga 100% (52/52) tt Tatar 86% (66/76) tw Twi 90% (66/73) tyv Tuvinian 94% (66/70) ug Uighur (0/125) uk Ukrainian 97% (70/72) ur Urdu (0/145) uz Uzbek 88% (60/68) ven Venda 83% (52/62) vi Vietnamese 49% (96/194) vo Volapuk 100% (54/54) vot Votic 100% (62/62) wa Walloon 100% (70/70) wen Sorbian languages (lower and upper) 100% (76/76) wo Wolof 100% (66/66) xh Xhosa 100% (52/52) yap Yapese 100% (58/58) yi Yiddish (0/27) yo Yoruba 87% (104/119) zh-936 GBK Chinese national standard 100% (21920/21920) zh-cn Chinese (simplified) 100% (6765/6765) zh-hk Chinese Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set 100% (2213/2213) zh-mo Chinese in Macau 100% (2213/2213) zh-sg Chinese in Singapore 100% (6765/6765) zh-tw Chinese (traditional) 100% (13063/13063) zu Zulu 100% (52/52) ---------------------------------------------------------- IV. About The WenQuanYi Project The Wen Quan Yi Project[1] was founded by Qianqian Fang[5] in Oct. 2004. The goal of this project is to create a highly efficient collaborative environment for open-source type-face development. The initial focus of the project is to create high quality bitmap character glyphs and outline fonts for all 70,000+ CJK characters currently encoded by the Unicode Consortium. The Wen Quan Yi Project uses Wiki[1] as the primary development tool for glyph creation, documentation and coordinations. The Wen Quan Yi wiki also supports glyph CVS and nightly build. The embodiment of the project consists of a "Steering Committee" by the core members, a "Team B" for bitmap Chinese font development and a "Team V" for outline font development. Need to mention, a large number of anonymous contributors also participate in our development through our Wiki website and their contributions are non-negligible. [1] The WenQuanYi Project Homepage http://wqy.sourceforge.net/ (Chinese version) http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/ (English version) http://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/ (Sourceforge project) http://wenq.org/ (Development site) http://wenq.org/forum/ (User forum) http://wenq.org/gallery/ (Screenshot gallery) [2] Firefly bitmap font http://www.study-area.org/apt/firefly-font/ [3] Chinese National Standard GB19966-2005 (mandatory) http://www.standardcn.com/standard_plan/list_standard_content.asp? stand_id=GB@19966-2005 [4] The Unicode Consortium http://www.unicode.org/ [5] Qianqian Fang homepage http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~fangq/ ---------------------------------------------------------- ** GPL v2 license with font embedding exception: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#FontException As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. ==========================================================