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On 02/05/13 15:09, David Cramer wrote:
> On 05/01/2013 10:04 PM, Tom Fifield wrote:
>> @David, are you able to help Kato san choose a different font for the
>> operations guide that supports Japanese?
> 
> What we really need is a Japanese font that also contains English
> characters. The reason for this is that Apache FOP doesn't yet support
> the character-by-character font selection strategy. That means it can't
> switch between different fonts in one para. So the idea would be to have
> a single font that works for the Japanese content and also can render
> the untranslated English bits (code samples etc).
> 
> Given a .ttf, I can add it to the clouddocs-maven-plugin and have it be
> used if the xml:lang="ja_JP"

Thanks David,

I just had a look at the standard places for free fonts and found it
difficult to determine which supported both. Will keep searching!

Kato san, is there perhaps a preferred "free" Japanese font that you
might be aware of and could find a TTF file for?


Regards,

Tom