[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unifont, unifont-fonts, unifont-viewer 15.0.02
Cygwin unifont Maintainer via Cygwin-announce
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Mon May 22 15:59:03 GMT 2023
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
* unifont 15.0.02
* unifont-viewer 15.0.02
* unifont-fonts 15.0.02
GNU Unifont is a Unicode font with a glyph for every visible
Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane code point and more, with supporting
utilities to modify the font. The Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane
covers the first 65,536 (or 2^16) Unicode code points.
NOTE
As it says below in the release notes, this is the last Unifont release
which will include Truetype format Unifont by default.
It is the first Cygwin release which also includes Opentype format
Unifont.
As these fonts are bitmap glyphs rendered into modern font formats, both
formats should render the same glyphs.
All modern systems support both Opentype and Truetype format fonts, so
there should be few or no issues if future releases provide only
Opentype format Unifont, which are also less than half the file size of
the Truetype format.
If anyone encounters issues using the Opentype format Unifont in place
of the Truetype format Unifont, please let us know before the next
release, so we can address any issues, or possibly continue to also
provide the Truetype format Unifont.
For more information see the project home page:
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/
For changes since the previous release, see below or read
/usr/share/doc/unifont/NEWS after installation.
See also Release Notes under:
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/unifont-utilities.html
2023-05-20: Release 15.0.02
* N.B.: This is the last planned version to build TrueType
font files as part of the standard font build.
In the future, only OpenType font files will be part of
the ordinary font building using the hex2otf program.
TrueType fonts will have to be built manually.
* Minor update to allow for separate building of TrueType
and OpenType fonts. This is in preparation for the future
removal of TrueType font files from default font builds,
in preference for OpenType font files. That change is
planned for the release of Unifont 15.1.01, which will
correspond to the release of the Unicode 15.1.0 standard
scheduled for September 2023.
* Added Doxygen annotation to C programs and corresponding
".h" header files. Annotated output is generated in a
new "doxygen" subdirectory. Doxygen output consists of
a browsable set of HTML pages and a hyperlinked PDF document.
* Updates to make files to fix issues with redundant building
under some circumstances.
* Added 196 Plane 2 and Plane 3 Chinese ideographs drawn by
æ¹ è¿æ to the basic Unifont font files for coverage of
the General Standard Chinese Characters set. Also added
biang glyphs drawn by Ming Fan.
* Fullwidth CJK characters that appeared to be boldface in
the range U+FF00..U+FFEF were updated using glyphs from
Wen Quan Yi, with some modifications.
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