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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  : 0.2.15 (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 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 over 35000 including Latin characters,
Japanese kanas, hanguls 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 data were developed by numerous 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 Hangul, kana, latin etc are merged from
   UnDotum from the un-fonts project (http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/),
   this font is released under GPL.

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                                  75% (68/90)      
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                               85% (127/148)    
az-ir  Azerbaijani in Iran                           (0/130)      
ba     Bashkir                                   78% (64/82)      
bam    Bambara                                   90% (54/60)      
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                               92% (72/78)      
bn     Bengali                                       (0/89)       
bo     Tibetan                                       (0/95)       
br     Breton                                   100% (64/64)      
bs     Bosnian                                   85% (53/62)      
bua    Buriat (Buryat)                           94% (66/70)      
ca     Catalan                                  100% (74/74)      
ce     Chechen                                  100% (67/67)      
ch     Chamorro                                 100% (58/58)      
chm    Mari (Lower Cheremis / Upper Cheremis)    86% (66/76)      
chr    Cherokee                                      (0/85)       
co     Corsican                                 100% (85/85)      
cs     Czech                                     78% (64/82)      
cu     Old Church Slavonic                       71% (74/103)     
cv     Chuvash                                   89% (66/74)      
cy     Welsh                                     87% (68/78)      
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                                 81% (52/64)      
es     Spanish                                  100% (67/67)      
et     Estonian                                  93% (60/64)      
eu     Basque                                   100% (56/56)      
fa     Persian                                       (0/129)      
fi     Finnish                                   93% (59/63)      
fj     Fijian                                   100% (52/52)      
fo     Faroese                                  100% (68/68)      
fr     French                                   100% (85/85)      
ful    Fulah (Fula)                              87% (54/62)      
fur    Friulian                                 100% (66/66)      
fy     Frisian                                  100% (75/75)      
ga     Irish                                     77% (62/80)      
gd     Scots Gaelic                             100% (70/70)      
gez    Ethiopic (Geez)                               (0/218)      
gl     Galician                                 100% (66/66)      
gn     Guarani                                   94% (66/70)      
gu     Gujarati                                      (0/78)       
gv     Manx Gaelic                              100% (54/54)      
ha     Hausa                                     86% (52/60)      
haw    Hawaiian                                  84% (53/63)      
he     Hebrew                                        (0/27)       
hi     Hindi (Devanagari script)                     (0/68)       
ho     Hiri Motu                                100% (52/52)      
hr     Croatian                                  85% (53/62)      
hu     Hungarian                                 94% (66/70)      
hy     Armenian                                   1% (1/77)       
ia     Interlingua                              100% (52/52)      
ibo    Igbo                                      89% (52/58)      
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                                  98% (6423/6538)  
ka     Georgian                                      (0/33)       
kaa    Kara-Kalpak (Karakalpak)                  84% (66/78)      
ki     Kikuyu                                    92% (52/56)      
kk     Kazakh                                    84% (65/77)      
kl     Greenlandic                               95% (77/81)      
km     Khmer                                         (0/70)       
kn     Kannada                                       (0/80)       
ko     Korean                                   100% (2443/2443)  
kok    Kokani (Devanagari script)                    (0/68)       
ks     Kashmiri (Devanagari script)                  (0/68)       
ku     Kurdish                                   90% (58/64)      
ku-ir  Kurdish in Iran                               (0/32)       
kum    Kumyk                                    100% (66/66)      
kv     Komi (Komi-Permyak/Komi-Siryan)           97% (68/70)      
kw     Cornish                                   81% (52/64)      
ky     Kirgiz                                    94% (66/70)      
la     Latin                                     76% (52/68)      
lb     Luxembourgish (Letzeburgesch)            100% (75/75)      
lez    Lezghian (Lezgian)                       100% (67/67)      
ln     Lingala                                   88% (72/81)      
lo     Lao                                           (0/65)       
lt     Lithuanian                                74% (52/70)      
lv     Latvian                                   66% (52/78)      
mg     Malagasy                                 100% (56/56)      
mh     Marshallese                               83% (52/62)      
mi     Maori                                     81% (52/64)      
mk     Macedonian                                90% (38/42)      
ml     Malayalam                                     (0/78)       
mn     Mongolian                                     (0/130)      
mo     Moldavian                                 95% (122/128)    
mr     Marathi (Devanagari script)                   (0/68)       
mt     Maltese                                   91% (66/72)      
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                                    80% (56/70)      
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                                  90% (56/62)      
ru     Russian                                  100% (66/66)      
sa     Sanskrit (Devanagari script)                  (0/68)       
sah    Yakut                                     86% (66/76)      
sco    Scots                                     92% (52/56)      
se     North Sami                                89% (59/66)      
sel    Selkup (Ostyak-Samoyed)                  100% (66/66)      
sh     Serbo-Croatian                           100% (76/76)      
si     Sinhala (Sinhalese)                           (0/77)       
sk     Slovak                                    79% (68/86)      
sl     Slovenian                                 85% (53/62)      
sm     Samoan                                   100% (53/53)      
sma    South Sami                               100% (60/60)      
smj    Lule Sami                                100% (60/60)      
smn    Inari Sami                                89% (61/68)      
sms    Skolt Sami                                78% (63/80)      
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                                     84% (66/78)      
th     Thai                                          (0/87)       
ti-er  Eritrean Tigrinya                             (0/256)      
ti-et  Ethiopian Tigrinya                            (0/282)      
tig    Tigre                                         (0/221)      
tk     Turkmen                                   89% (66/74)      
tl     Tagalog                                       (0/19)       
tn     Tswana                                   100% (56/56)      
to     Tonga                                    100% (53/53)      
tr     Turkish                                   92% (65/70)      
ts     Tsonga                                   100% (52/52)      
tt     Tatar                                     86% (66/76)      
tw     Twi                                       79% (58/73)      
tyv    Tuvinian                                  94% (66/70)      
ug     Uighur                                        (0/125)      
uk     Ukrainian                                 97% (70/72)      
ur     Urdu                                          (0/145)      
uz     Uzbek                                     88% (60/68)      
ven    Venda                                     83% (52/62)      
vi     Vietnamese                                43% (85/194)     
vo     Volapuk                                  100% (54/54)      
vot    Votic                                     93% (58/62)      
wa     Walloon                                  100% (70/70)      
wen    Sorbian languages (lower and upper)       73% (56/76)      
wo     Wolof                                    100% (66/66)      
xh     Xhosa                                    100% (52/52)      
yap    Yapese                                   100% (58/58)      
yi     Yiddish                                       (0/27)       
yo     Yoruba                                    72% (86/119)     
zh-936                                           96% (21086/21920)
zh-cn  Chinese (simplified)                     100% (6765/6765)  
zh-hk  Chinese Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set 100% (2213/2213)  
zh-mo  Chinese in Macau                         100% (2213/2213)  
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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As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this
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the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting 
document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This 
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