Re: Japanese font that includes Italics

From: Christine Snow (christine.k.snow@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 12 2009 - 17:25:34 CDT

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    Exactly. A different font that shows Japanese in a
    script/italic/however-you-want-to-describe-it style. That is what I am
    looking for.

    I was hoping for some specific fonts, sites, any info that is proven to have
    worked for someone, or has been useful, instead of recreating the wheel and
    starting from scratch.

    Thanks for everyone's responses!
    Christine

    On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Phillips, Addison <addison@amazon.com>wrote:

    > I doesn't have any meaning in terms of real Japanese layout. In this case
    > it probably just means "don't oblique a standard font"??
    >
    > It is instructive to note that the word "italic" never appears anywhere in
    > the W3C's "Requirements for Japanese Text Layout" [1]. There is a quite
    > extensive section on emphasis, however.
    >
    > Probably a better option, if the idea is to preserve the visual impact of
    > italics, would be to use a different font, such as one in the "calligraphic"
    > style (as opposed to Mincho or Gothic "printed" style fonts). This will
    > still probably look really weird to Japanese people. But it might be better
    > than, ur, an italic Japanese font?
    >
    > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Addison
    >
    > Addison Phillips
    > Globalization Architect -- Lab126
    >
    > Internationalization is not a feature.
    > It is an architecture.
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
    > > On Behalf Of Clark S. Cox III
    > > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:36 PM
    > > To: Christine Snow
    > > Cc: Unicode Mailing List
    > > Subject: Re: Japanese font that includes Italics
    > >
    > >
    > > On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Christine Snow wrote:
    > >
    > > > I am looking for a Japanese font that includes italics option. My
    > > > client has InDesign files that will be localized into Japanese
    > > and
    > > > she requires "real" italics to be used, not "fake" italics by
    > > > slanting or skewing the text.
    > >
    > > What does "real" italics even mean in the context of Japanese text?
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >

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