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WenQuanYi Chinese Fonts
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Name: wqy (also called wenqy or wenquanyi) font
Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/ (English) and http://wenq.org/wqy2/index.cgi (Chinese)
Reason: Currently there are no sufficient fonts for typing Chinese characters. For example, under ibus-rime, one is guaranteed to get an un-displayable character after flipping through 3 selection pages (about 27 characters). Adding wqy to the repository can help resolve this issue, as it is the largest open-source Chinese font collection.
Who will use this: anyone that needs to type Chinese
Open source: yes, GPL-2
Link to source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/files/latest/download, or maybe this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/files/wqy-zenhei/0.9.45%20%28Fighting-state%20RC1%29/. I'm not too familiar with SourceForge.

Note: many of the fonts have very old release (some even dating back to 2010), but this is a Chinese font package that doesn't really need upgrades due to its nature.

Event Timeline

Girtablulu triaged this task as Wishlist priority.Jan 16 2022, 6:57 PM
Girtablulu moved this task from Backlog to Accepted For Inclusion on the Package Requests board.
Girtablulu added a project: Needs Maintainer.
Girtablulu added a subscriber: Girtablulu.

This needs a Maintainer

Still trying to figure out how to get (and verify) the bitmap fonts working, but I guess I can submit the TTF fonts for now.