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                 Wen Quan Yi Zen Hei

                    Release Notes

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Dedication: 

   To Three-Leg-Cat: The "cat" who has never stopped making 
                   this font better!

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Summary:

    Author   : Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project Contributors
    Webpage  : http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/
    Font Name: WenQuanYi Zen Hei
    Version  : 0.9.45.NB (Fighting-State RC1)
    Release  : 7
    Copyright  © 2007-2010, Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project 
               Board of Trustees, All rights reserved
    License  : GPL v2 (with font embedding exception **)
               Read COPYING for details

    Project Maintainer and Contact:
            Qianqian Fang   <fangq at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
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    Acknowledgment:

       This font contains the Latin/Hangul glyphs from
         un-fonts (UnDotum), Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Koaunghi Un

       The Bopomofo glyphs U3100-U3127 were imported from GPL font
         cwTeX (cwming.ttf), Copyright (c) 1999,2004 Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu. 
            Copyright (c) 2005 Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Edward G.J. Lee.

       Part of the embedded bitmap glyphs were derived from
         "firefly bitmap fonts" [2], Copyright (c) 2004, Firefly 

       The mono-spaced Latin glyphs were derived from M+ M2 Light
            Copyright (c) 2002-2008 M+ FONTS PROJECT 

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                      Born Free
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Table of Content

 I.    About this font
 II.   Credits
 III.  Language Coverage
 IV.   About "The WenQuanYi Project"

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I. About this font

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a Hei-Ti style (sans-serif) Chinese 
outline font. It is designed for general purpose text layout 
and on-screen display of Chinese characters and symbols from
many other languages. The emboldened strokes of the font glyphs 
produce enhanced screen contrast, making it easier to read and
recognize. The embedded bitmap glyphs, which can be enabled 
with the provided configuration files, further enhance the 
on-screen performance.

WenQuanYi Zen Hei provides a fairly complete coverage to Chinese 
Hanzi glyphs, including both simplified and traditional forms. 
The total glyph number in this font is over 35,000, including over 
27,500 Chinese Hanzi. This font has full coverage CJK Unified 
Ideographs (U4E00-U9FC3) and CJK Extension A (U3400-U4DB5), 
as well as the code-points needed for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, 
zh_hk, zh_mo, ja (Japanese) and ko (Korean) locales. 
Starting from version 0.8, this font package has contained 
two font families, i.e. the proportionally-spaced Zen Hei, 
and a mono-spaced face named "WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono".

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II. Credits

1. The outline Hanzi glyphs were created by Qianqian Fang (FangQ).

2. The Hanzi stroke data were developed by numerous contributors
   over the past 5 years. Particularly, ailantian, niqiu, FangQ, 
   Three-leg-cat, hunter, lsz, pem, twang467, zxpmyth, luoyuwen, 
   fujianwzh and farm are the key contributors.

3. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Hangul, kana, latin etc are merged from
   UnDotum from the un-fonts project (http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/),
   this font was released under GPL.

4. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi
   contributors and FangQ based on the bitmap fonts by firefly [2].
   The 12pt Chinese glyphs are copies of the Chinese National Standard 
   GB19966 [3]. The detailed credit for this font can be found at
        http://wenq.org/index.cgi?FirstEmperor_ChangeLog

5. The non-Hanzi glyphs for "Zen Hei Mono" were merged from 
   M+ M Type-1 Light (http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/)

6. The font file was created by Fontforge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/), 
    developed by George Williams.   

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 III. Language Coverage

The following table is based on the locale data provided by fontconfig
(generated by langcover.pl from Dejavu Project
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Font_utilities).

aa     Afar                                     100% (62/62)      
ab     Abkhazia                                  75% (68/90)      
af     Afrikaans                                100% (69/69)      
am     Amharic                                       (0/264)      
ar     Arabic                                        (0/125)      
as                                                   (0/89)       
ast    Asturian                                 100% (72/72)      
ava    Avaric                                   100% (67/67)      
ay     Aymara                                   100% (60/60)      
az     Azerbaijani                               86% (128/148)    
az-ir  Azerbaijani in Iran                           (0/130)      
ba     Bashkir                                   78% (64/82)      
bam    Bambara                                   95% (57/60)      
be     Byelorussian                             100% (68/68)      
bg     Bulgarian                                100% (60/60)      
bh     Bihari (Devanagari script)                    (0/68)       
bho    Bhojpuri (Devanagari script)                  (0/68)       
bi     Bislama                                  100% (58/58)      
bin    Edo or Bini                               92% (72/78)      
bn     Bengali                                       (0/89)       
bo     Tibetan                                       (0/95)       
br     Breton                                   100% (64/64)      
bs     Bosnian                                   85% (53/62)      
bua    Buriat (Buryat)                           94% (66/70)      
ca     Catalan                                  100% (74/74)      
ce     Chechen                                  100% (67/67)      
ch     Chamorro                                 100% (58/58)      
chm    Mari (Lower Cheremis / Upper Cheremis)    86% (66/76)      
chr    Cherokee                                      (0/85)       
co     Corsican                                 100% (85/85)      
cs     Czech                                     80% (66/82)      
cu     Old Church Slavonic                       71% (74/103)     
cv     Chuvash                                   89% (66/74)      
cy     Welsh                                     87% (68/78)      
da     Danish                                   100% (70/70)      
de     German                                   100% (60/60)      
dz     Dzongkha                                      (0/95)       
el     Greek                                    100% (70/70)      
en     English                                  100% (73/73)      
eo     Esperanto                                 81% (52/64)      
es     Spanish                                  100% (67/67)      
et     Estonian                                  93% (60/64)      
eu     Basque                                   100% (56/56)      
fa     Persian                                       (0/129)      
fi     Finnish                                   93% (59/63)      
fj     Fijian                                   100% (52/52)      
fo     Faroese                                  100% (68/68)      
fr     French                                   100% (85/85)      
ful    Fulah (Fula)                              91% (57/62)      
fur    Friulian                                 100% (66/66)      
fy     Frisian                                  100% (75/75)      
ga     Irish                                     77% (62/80)      
gd     Scots Gaelic                             100% (70/70)      
gez    Ethiopic (Geez)                               (0/218)      
gl     Galician                                 100% (66/66)      
gn     Guarani                                   94% (66/70)      
gu     Gujarati                                      (0/78)       
gv     Manx Gaelic                              100% (54/54)      
ha     Hausa                                     90% (54/60)      
haw    Hawaiian                                  92% (58/63)      
he     Hebrew                                        (0/27)       
hi     Hindi (Devanagari script)                     (0/68)       
ho     Hiri Motu                                100% (52/52)      
hr     Croatian                                  85% (53/62)      
hu     Hungarian                                 94% (66/70)      
hy     Armenian                                      (0/77)       
ia     Interlingua                              100% (52/52)      
ibo    Igbo                                      89% (52/58)      
id     Indonesian                               100% (54/54)      
ie     Interlingue                              100% (52/52)      
ik     Inupiaq (Inupiak, Eskimo)                100% (68/68)      
io     Ido                                      100% (52/52)      
is     Icelandic                                100% (70/70)      
it     Italian                                  100% (73/73)      
iu     Inuktitut                                     (0/161)      
ja     Japanese                                 100% (6538/6538)  
ka     Georgian                                      (0/33)       
kaa    Kara-Kalpak (Karakalpak)                  84% (66/78)      
ki     Kikuyu                                    92% (52/56)      
kk     Kazakh                                    84% (65/77)      
kl     Greenlandic                               95% (77/81)      
km     Khmer                                         (0/70)       
kn     Kannada                                       (0/80)       
ko     Korean                                   100% (2443/2443)  
kok    Kokani (Devanagari script)                    (0/68)       
ks     Kashmiri (Devanagari script)                  (0/68)       
ku     Kurdish                                   90% (58/64)      
ku-ir  Kurdish in Iran                               (0/32)       
kum    Kumyk                                    100% (66/66)      
kv     Komi (Komi-Permyak/Komi-Siryan)           97% (68/70)      
kw     Cornish                                   89% (57/64)      
ky     Kirgiz                                    94% (66/70)      
la     Latin                                     83% (57/68)      
lb     Luxembourgish (Letzeburgesch)            100% (75/75)      
lez    Lezghian (Lezgian)                       100% (67/67)      
ln     Lingala                                   92% (75/81)      
lo     Lao                                           (0/65)       
lt     Lithuanian                                75% (53/70)      
lv     Latvian                                   73% (57/78)      
mg     Malagasy                                 100% (56/56)      
mh     Marshallese                               88% (55/62)      
mi     Maori                                     89% (57/64)      
mk     Macedonian                                90% (38/42)      
ml     Malayalam                                     (0/78)       
mn     Mongolian                                     (0/130)      
mo     Moldavian                                 95% (122/128)    
mr     Marathi (Devanagari script)                   (0/68)       
mt     Maltese                                   91% (66/72)      
my     Burmese (Myanmar)                             (0/48)       
nb     Norwegian Bokmal                         100% (70/70)      
nds    Low Saxon                                100% (59/59)      
ne     Nepali (Devanagari script)                    (0/68)       
nl     Dutch                                    100% (83/83)      
nn     Norwegian Nynorsk                        100% (76/76)      
no     Norwegian (Bokmal)                       100% (70/70)      
ny     Chichewa                                 100% (54/54)      
oc     Occitan                                  100% (70/70)      
om     Oromo or Galla                           100% (52/52)      
or     Oriya                                         (0/79)       
os     Ossetic                                  100% (66/66)      
pa     Punjabi (Gurumukhi script)                    (0/63)       
pl     Polish                                    81% (57/70)      
ps-af  Pashto in Afghanistan                         (0/49)       
ps-pk  Pashto in Pakistan                            (0/49)       
pt     Portuguese                               100% (83/83)      
rm     Rhaeto-Romance (Romansch)                100% (66/66)      
ro     Romanian                                  90% (56/62)      
ru     Russian                                  100% (66/66)      
sa     Sanskrit (Devanagari script)                  (0/68)       
sah    Yakut                                     86% (66/76)      
sco    Scots                                     94% (53/56)      
se     North Sami                                89% (59/66)      
sel    Selkup (Ostyak-Samoyed)                  100% (66/66)      
sh     Serbo-Croatian                           100% (76/76)      
si     Sinhala (Sinhalese)                           (0/77)       
sk     Slovak                                    80% (69/86)      
sl     Slovenian                                 85% (53/62)      
sm     Samoan                                   100% (53/53)      
sma    South Sami                               100% (60/60)      
smj    Lule Sami                                100% (60/60)      
smn    Inari Sami                                89% (61/68)      
sms    Skolt Sami                                80% (64/80)      
so     Somali                                   100% (52/52)      
sq     Albanian                                 100% (56/56)      
sr     Serbian                                  100% (76/76)      
sv     Swedish                                  100% (68/68)      
sw     Swahili                                  100% (52/52)      
syr    Syriac                                        (0/45)       
ta     Tamil                                         (0/48)       
te     Telugu                                        (0/80)       
tg     Tajik                                     84% (66/78)      
th     Thai                                          (0/87)       
ti-er  Eritrean Tigrinya                             (0/256)      
ti-et  Ethiopian Tigrinya                            (0/282)      
tig    Tigre                                         (0/221)      
tk     Turkmen                                   89% (66/74)      
tl     Tagalog                                       (0/19)       
tn     Tswana                                   100% (56/56)      
to     Tonga                                    100% (53/53)      
tr     Turkish                                   92% (65/70)      
ts     Tsonga                                   100% (52/52)      
tt     Tatar                                     86% (66/76)      
tw     Twi                                       82% (60/73)      
tyv    Tuvinian                                  94% (66/70)      
ug     Uighur                                        (0/125)      
uk     Ukrainian                                 97% (70/72)      
ur     Urdu                                          (0/145)      
uz     Uzbek                                     88% (60/68)      
ven    Venda                                     83% (52/62)      
vi     Vietnamese                                43% (85/194)     
vo     Volapuk                                  100% (54/54)      
vot    Votic                                     93% (58/62)      
wa     Walloon                                  100% (70/70)      
wen    Sorbian languages (lower and upper)       76% (58/76)      
wo     Wolof                                    100% (66/66)      
xh     Xhosa                                    100% (52/52)      
yap    Yapese                                   100% (58/58)      
yi     Yiddish                                       (0/27)       
yo     Yoruba                                    77% (92/119)     
zh-936 GBK Chinese national standard            100% (21920/21920)
zh-cn  Chinese (simplified)                     100% (6765/6765)  
zh-hk  Chinese Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set 100% (2213/2213)  
zh-mo  Chinese in Macau                         100% (2213/2213)  
zh-sg  Chinese in Singapore                     100% (6765/6765)  
zh-tw  Chinese (traditional)                    100% (13063/13063)
zu     Zulu                                     100% (52/52) 
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 IV. About WenQuanYi Project

Wen Quan Yi Project (spring of letters) 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.  


[1] The WenQuanYi Project Homepage
      http://wqy.sourceforge.net/            (Chinese version)
      http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/         (English version)
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/   (Sourceforge project)
      http://wenq.org/                       (Development site)
      http://wenq.org/forum/                 (User forum)
      http://wenq.org/gallery/               (Screenshot gallery)

[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/

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** GPL v2 license with font embedding exception:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#FontException

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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