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Chinese TrueType font support in X window

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It is of great significance to provide Chinese TrueType font support in X Window. This paper describes the work of adding a Chinese TrueType font renderer under X's font support mechanism. First, the origin of the idea is introduced, followed by a brief study of TrueType font and its rasterization algorithm, then the font support mechanism in X Window is discussed. Finally, an overall illustration of the Chinese TrueType font renderer is given.

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  1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, P.R. China

    Ye Yimin & Sun Yufang

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The work is supported by a High Technology Key Project in the National 9th Five-Year Plan.

Ye Yimin is an Assistant Professor. He received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in 1987 and 1989, respectively. His research interests are window systems and font.

SUN Yufang is a Professor. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1970 and 1982, respectively. His research interests are operating systems, internationalization and Chinese localization, Chinese computing environment, parallel and distributed processing, object oriented programming, window system and font.

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Ye, Y., Sun, Y. Chinese TrueType font support in X window. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 14, 27–33 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02952484

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