From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 18:54:28 EST
why don't you find a font which already support it ?
you can find some info here -
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/columns/015/default.mspx
It is not that easy for you from "don't know beans about fonts" to
"creat a test font that contains ... \u20050". If you are lucky, it will
take you several month if not year. There are commercial base font tool.
But I am not sure they support 32 bits cmap or not (probably not). You
can start from http://www.microsoft.com/typography/users.htm , but I
think it will take you a while .... you need the 32 bits cmap support in
OpenType to add u20050 . I don't know which commercial tool current
support that.
Ostermueller, Erik wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to create a test font that contains a
> a standard US Latin alphabet and the following characters:
>
> \u5000
> \u20050
>
> We need this for testing a software app that supports GB18030.
if you want to get GB18030 test data, one thing you can do is to visit
my GB18030 test page at
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/testscript/gb18030/gb18030.cgi?page=10
That is what I design to test Mozilla's GB18030 support. The page number
and the layout match exactly what the paper copy of GB18030 so you can
do a screen to paper copy comparision. I do add addition pages in the
web (from page 284 and later which is not in the hardcopy of GB18030).
If you visit
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/testscript/gb18030/gb18030.cgi?page=596
and your machine have surrogate support install correctly and surrogate
font install correctly then you should see surrogate characters show up
match the gif. IF you click the [Text] in the left upper corner, it will
open a new window and put those GB18030 text in plain text format.
Good luck.
> My main problem is that I don't know beans about fonts.
> Could someone recommend a good tutorial or 'font creator' application
> that addresses surrogate pairs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik Ostermueller
>
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