Kochi (font)
Kochi (
Plagiarism controversy[edit]
The Kochi Mincho font began as an outline version of a raster font known as Watanabe (
While Hitachi, who claimed to own the TypeBank font, had announced that they were willing to permit its restricted use in Linux systems,[3] the direction preferred was to discontinue the old Kochi fonts and replace them with new versions that did not contain any of the plagiarised characters. The new font family was called Kochi-substitute: it retained the old Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho font names, but the file names were changed to kochi-gothic-subst.ttf
and kochi-mincho-subst.ttf
, respectively.
Kochi-Substitute is currently a part of the efont project, maintained by Hiroki Kanou.
Kochi-Substitute character sources[edit]
The outlines of kana and Latin glyphs in Kochi Gothic come from the old Kochi font project for kana and Latin-based characters. Greek and Cyrillic glyphs were built specifically for Kochi-Substitute by Uchida (
For other characters, Kochi Mincho uses the Wadalab Mincho (
Kochi Gothic uses Wadalab Gothic for JIS X 0208 characters and Wadalab Maru for JIS X 0212 characters.
Kochi Gothic uses embedded bitmaps from following:
- Naga 10 for 10-pixel font, Shinonome12 for 12-pixel font, k14goth for 14-pixel font, Shinonome 16 for 16-pixel font, Ayu 20dot Font (
東風 ) for 20-pixel font.
Kochi Mincho uses embedded bitmaps from following:
- Naga 10 for 10-pixel font, Shinonome12 for 12-pixel font, Tachibana font (
橘 フォント, k14) for 14-pixel font, Shinonome 16 for 16-pixel font, Kappa 20dot Font for 20-pixel font.
Each font contains 15365 glyphs (14755 characters). Many characters (including most Latin-1 Supplement characters) are, however, not visible.
Both fonts also support following code pages: 1252 (Latin 1), 1250 (Latin 2), 1251 (Cyrillic), 1254 (Turkish), 1257 (Windows Baltic), 932 (JIS/Japan), Reserved for OEM, 865 (MS-DOS Nordic), 863 (MS-DOS Canadian French), 861 (MS-DOS Icelandic), 857 (MS-DOS IBM Turkish), 852 (Latin 2), 775 (MS-DOS Baltic), 850 (WE/Latin 1), 437 (US).
OpenType layout tables support Vertical Writing for kana under default and Japanese languages.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Concerning the unauthorised use of a 32-dot bitmap font (Japanese and partial English translation)
- ^ Debian-legal discussion
- ^ Press release (Japanese)