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           Wen Quan Yi Bitmap Song CJK Fonts

                    Release Notes

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Dedication:


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Summary:

    Authors  : WenQuanYi Contributors
    Webpage  : http://wenq.org/en/
    Font Name: WenQuanYi Bitmap Song
    Version  : 1.0 (Hero) RC1 (0.9.9.8)
    Release  : 8
    Copyright: � 2004-2010, The WenQuanYi Project
               Board of Trustees and Qianqian Fang
    License  : GPL v2 (with font embedding exception **)
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          May the Font be with you, forever!

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Legal Disclaimer:

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Table of Content

 I.   Introduction
 II.  Installation
 III. About "The WenQuanYi Project"
 IV.  Links to Open-source CJK font resources

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 I. Introduction

WenQuanYi bitmap fonts include all 20,932 Unicode 5.2
CJK Unified Ideographs (U4E00 - U9FA5) and 6,582
CJK Extension A characters (U3400 - U4DB5) at
5 different pixel sizes (9pt-12X12, 10pt-13X13,
10.5pt-14x14, 11pt-15X15 and 12pt-16x16 pixel).
Use of this bitmap font for on-screen display of Chinese
(traditional and simplified) in web pages and elsewhere
eliminates the annoying "blurring" problems caused by
insufficient "hinting" of anti-aliased vector CJK fonts.
In addition, Latin characters, Japanese Kanas and
Korean Hangul glyphs (U+AC00~U+D7A3) are also included.

This font was built upon the previous works by firefly
(firefly[at]firefly(dot)idv(dot)tw)[2]. The 12pt bitmap
glyphs between U3400-U9FA5 were derived from Chinese
national standard GB19966-2005 [3].

We release this font to the public as an open-source
software in terms of GNU General Public License version 2.
You are free to copy, distribute, and/or modify this
font as long as you pass the freedoms to the users
of the derived work.

We hope you find this font useful. Please direct your
feedback and bug-reports to our forum at

  http://wenq.org/forum/

In addition to bitmap font development, we also develop
vector fonts and other CJK-related resources at WenQuanYi.
Please join us by visiting our website at

  http://wenq.org/en/

We also welcome donations if you found this font to be
useful to you.

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 II. Installation Guide

    Please refer to INSTALL for details.

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 III. About The WenQuanYi Project

The Wen Quan Yi Project was founded by Qianqian Fang[5] in
Oct. 2004. The goal of this project is to develop CJK
related open-source software and resources. The initial
effots of the project focused on creating high quality
bitmap character glyphs and outline fonts for all
70,000+ CJK characters currently encoded by the
Unicode Consortium [4].

The contributors of the Wen Quan Yi Project use wiki[1]
as the primary development tool for glyph creation, documentation
and coordinations. The Wen Quan Yi wiki (Habitat wiki:
http://wenq.org/habitat/ ) was developed by Qianqian Fang
based on UseModWiki v1.0.

For commercial use, please contact the project
maintainer (Qianqian Fang) or consult copyright law firms to
make sure your plan is compliant with the font licenses.
Commercial licenses are also available upon request.

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 IV. Links to Open-source CJK font resources


[1] The WenQuanYi Project Homepage
      http://wenq.org/            (Chinese version)
      http://wenq.org/en/         (English version)
      http://wenq.org/forum/      (User forum)

[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/


** GPL v2.0 license with font embedding exception:

As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this
font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into
the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting
document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This
exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you
modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of
the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to
do so, delete this exception statement from your version.


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