[XeTeX] encoding radicals in traditional Chinese

[Daniel Greenhoe]

> Do the Chinese fonts that come with Windows not include
> these?

I am using a Chinese version of Windows XP, and apparently the radicals are not included by default because when viewing a page with the radicals, most of them did not show up:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Unicode_chart_Kangxi_Radicals
Here is what they should look like:
  http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2F00.pdf

> If nothing else, you could try James Kass's Code2000,
> which is pretty comprehensive 

I did find a list of some fonts that support the Kangxi radicals, and Code2000 was one of them:
  http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/kangxi_radicals/fontsupport.htm

In the end I downloaded a font called "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" that supports the Kangxi radicals. It is available from sourceforge at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192&package_id=242056
  
So now both my Windows Firefox browser and XeLaTeX typeset document seem to be able to render the Kangxi radicals. Thank you very much for all your help!!! I greatly appreciate it.

By the way, thank you also for your work creating XeLaTeX. It is really a very great contribution.

Dan

--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Jonathan Kew <jonathan at jfkew.plus.com> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan at jfkew.plus.com>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] encoding radicals in traditional Chinese
> To: dgreenhoe at yahoo.com
> Cc: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 3:12 AM
> On 29 Nov 2008, at 03:24, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
> 
> > 
> >> You can simply use TeX's \char primitive,
> as in
> >> \char"2F39, to print any Unicode
> character using
> >> the current font.
> > 
> > This is basically the answer I was looking for --- so
> let me first say, thank you very much! That is very helpful.
> > 
> > But now I have a different problem; and that is that
> when I use the \char command, nothing shows up in the
> generated pdf file. Presumably this is because the font I am
> using does not support the 2F00-2FDF range. The font I tried
> to use shows up in my operating system as
> "HanWangMingMedium", and was downloaded as a ttf
> file from
> > 
> http://apt.nc.hcc.edu.tw/pub/FreeSoftware/free_fonts/wangttf/
> 
> Do the Chinese fonts that come with Windows not include
> these?
> 
> If nothing else, you could try James Kass's Code2000,
> which is pretty comprehensive -- may not always be the most
> beautiful font but at least you'll be able to see the
> characters. (It's shareware, IIRC; I'm sure Google
> can find it.)
> 
> JK