[Bug 285561] New: Review Request: wqy-unibit - a dual-width bitmap font for maximum unicode coverage

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           Summary: Review Request: wqy-unibit - a dual-width bitmap font
                    for maximum unicode coverage
           Product: Fedora
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: fangqq at gmail.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-package-review at redhat.com,notting at redhat.com


Spec URL: http://wenq.org/release/unibit/wqy-unibit.spec
SRPM URL: http://wenq.org/release/unibit/wqy-unibit-1.0.0-1.src.rpm

Description: 

The Wen Quan Yi Unibit is designed as a dual-width (16x16,16x8) 
bitmap font to provide the most complete international symbol 
coverage, serving as the system-wide fall-back font. This font 
has covered 46362 Unicode code points in BMP as to Sep. 2007.
It is indented to supersede the outdated GNU Unifont.
This font was created by merging the latest update of GNU 
Unifont [GPL] (by Roman Czyborra and David Starner et al., the 
font was last updated in 2004??), WenQuanYi Bitmap Song [GPL] 
0.8.1 (by Qianqian Fang and WenQuanYi contributors) and 
Fixed-16x8 [public domain] bitmap fonts from X11 core fonts. 
The entire CJK Unified Ideographics (U4E00-U9FA5) and CJK Unified 
Ideographics Extension A(U3400-U4DB5) blocks were replaced by 
high-quality glyphs from China National Standard GB19966-2005 
(public domain). Near a thousand of non-CJK characters were improved by 
WenQuanYi contributors via their collaborative font editing website at
http://wenq.org/eindex.cgi?Unicode_Chart_EN


Note 1: I wrote the spec file based on wqy-bitmap-fonts 
(#230560) for FC5-F7, I built and tested the srpm/rpm on 
FC6, validated by rpmlint. If the new font
mechanism is needed for F8, please let me know and
I will write another spec file based on wqy-bitmap-fonts-f8.

Note 2: the Hanzi blocks in GNU Unifont are neither complete
nor optimized; this font will offer much better bitmap glyphs.
A side-by-side comparison between the two fonts can be found at 
http://wenq.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=wqy-unibit

Note 3: the naming of the package follows wqy's existing and 
coming fonts (wqy-zenhei will be uploaded soon): wqy-unibit,
wqy-bitmap-fonts, wqy-zenhei and wqy-univec will all located under
%{_datadir}/fonts/wenquanyi for easy management.

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