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                 Wen Quan Yi Zen Hei

                    Release Notes

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Dedication: 

	To Zhu Zixiao, FangQ's dear niece

        To ailantian (and his broken mouse), niqiu, farm, luoyuwen
           and countless others who contributed to this project

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Summary:

    Author   : Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project Contributors
    Webpage  : http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/
    Font Name: WenQuanYi Zen Hei
    Version  : 0.2 (Zixiao)
    Release  : 1
    Copyright: © 2007, Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project 
               Board of Trustees, All rights reserved
    License  : GPL v2.0 (with font embedding exception **)
               Read COPYING for details

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          For a moment of peace in your mind
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Table of Content

 I.    About this font
 II.   Credits
 III.  Language Coverage
 IV.   About "The WenQuanYi Project"

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I. About this font

The WenQuanYi Zen Hei is the first open-source Chinese font 
for Hei Ti, a sans-serif font style that are widely used for
general purpose Chinese text formatting, and on-screen 
display of Chinese characters (such as in Windows Vista and Mac OS).
Simple and elegant font outlines and slightly emboldened strokes 
makes the glyphs presenting higher contrast and therefore easy 
to read. The unique style of this font also provide a simple
interface for adding grid-fitting information for further 
fine-tuning of the on-screen performance.

WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese
Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 
20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified 
Ideographics [4]. This font provides full coverage to the required 
code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The 
total vector glyphs in this font is 25356 including Latin characters,
Japanese kanas, and symbols from many other languages.

Highly regarded WenQuanYi Bitmap Song fonts were embedded into this 
font for those who prefer shaper look of the text rendering, The 
embedded bitmap glyphs cover font sizes at 9pt, 10pt, 11pt 
and 12pt. 

The primary purpose of developing this font is to provide CJK
(Chinese-Japanese-Korean) users a visually pleasing, standard 
compliant, platform independent and compact solution for displaying 
and printing Chinese on their computers.

We wish you enjoying the font, and joining us to continuously 
improve this font for better performance and wider applications.

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II. Credits

1. The spline Hanzi glyphs were created by Qianqian Fang (FangQ).

2. The Hanzi stroke database were developed by thousands of contributors
   over the past 2 years. Particularly, ailantian, niqiu, FangQ, twang467, zxpmyth 
   luoyuwen and farm are the key contributors.

3. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from
   cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project (http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/),
   and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from M+ project (http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/). These fonts 
   were released under X11 license.

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 font file was created by Fontforge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/), 
    developed by George Williams.   

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 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                                 100% (90/90)      
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                              100% (148/148)    
az-ir  Azerbaijani in Iran                           (0/130)      
ba     Bashkir                                  100% (82/82)      
bam    Bambara                                   98% (59/60)      
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                              100% (78/78)      
bn     Bengali                                       (0/89)       
bo     Tibetan                                       (0/95)       
br     Breton                                   100% (64/64)      
bs     Bosnian                                  100% (62/62)      
bua    Buriat (Buryat)                          100% (70/70)      
ca     Catalan                                  100% (74/74)      
ce     Chechen                                  100% (67/67)      
ch     Chamorro                                 100% (58/58)      
chm    Mari (Lower Cheremis / Upper Cheremis)   100% (76/76)      
chr    Cherokee                                      (0/85)       
co     Corsican                                 100% (85/85)      
cs     Czech                                    100% (82/82)      
cu     Old Church Slavonic                      100% (103/103)    
cv     Chuvash                                  100% (74/74)      
cy     Welsh                                    100% (78/78)      
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)                              91% (57/62)      
fur    Friulian                                 100% (66/66)      
fy     Frisian                                  100% (75/75)      
ga     Irish                                    100% (80/80)      
gd     Scots Gaelic                             100% (70/70)      
gez    Ethiopic (Geez)                               (0/218)      
gl     Galician                                 100% (66/66)      
gn     Guarani                                  100% (70/70)      
gu     Gujarati                                      (0/78)       
gv     Manx Gaelic                              100% (54/54)      
ha     Hausa                                     91% (55/60)      
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                                     100% (58/58)      
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)                 100% (78/78)      
ki     Kikuyu                                   100% (56/56)      
kk     Kazakh                                   100% (77/77)      
kl     Greenlandic                              100% (81/81)      
km     Khmer                                         (0/70)       
kn     Kannada                                       (0/80)       
ko     Korean                                        (0/2443)     
kok    Kokani (Devanagari script)                    (0/68)       
ks     Kashmiri (Devanagari script)                  (0/68)       
ku     Kurdish                                  100% (64/64)      
ku-ir  Kurdish in Iran                               (0/32)       
kum    Kumyk                                    100% (66/66)      
kv     Komi (Komi-Permyak/Komi-Siryan)          100% (70/70)      
kw     Cornish                                  100% (64/64)      
ky     Kirgiz                                   100% (70/70)      
la     Latin                                    100% (68/68)      
lb     Luxembourgish (Letzeburgesch)            100% (75/75)      
lez    Lezghian (Lezgian)                       100% (67/67)      
ln     Lingala                                  100% (81/81)      
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                                    100% (64/64)      
mk     Macedonian                               100% (42/42)      
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                                    100% (76/76)      
sco    Scots                                     96% (54/56)      
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                                95% (76/80)      
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                                    100% (78/78)      
th     Thai                                       1% (1/87)       
ti-er  Eritrean Tigrinya                             (0/256)      
ti-et  Ethiopian Tigrinya                            (0/282)      
tig    Tigre                                         (0/221)      
tk     Turkmen                                  100% (74/74)      
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                                    100% (76/76)      
tw     Twi                                      100% (73/73)      
tyv    Tuvinian                                 100% (70/70)      
ug     Uighur                                        (0/125)      
uk     Ukrainian                                100% (72/72)      
ur     Urdu                                          (0/145)      
uz     Uzbek                                    100% (68/68)      
ven    Venda                                    100% (62/62)      
vi     Vietnamese                                99% (193/194)    
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                                   100% (119/119)    
zh-cn  Chinese (simplified)                     100% (6765/6765)  
zh-hk  Chinese Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set 100% (2214/2213)  
zh-mo  Chinese in Macau                         100% (2214/2213)  
zh-sg  Chinese in Singapore                     100% (6765/6765)  
zh-tw  Chinese (traditional)                    100% (13063/13063)
zu     Zulu                                     100% (52/52)  
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 IV. About The WenQuanYi Project

The Wen Quan Yi Project[1] was created by Qianqian Fang[5] in 
Oct. 2004. The goal of this project is 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 use 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 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/

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