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Add fonts SimSun-18030 and NSimSun-18030 #12

Closed ronaldtse closed 2 years ago

ronaldtse commented 4 years ago

The "Support Package GB18030" provides the font file SimSun18030.ttc.

This link provides this file GBEXTSUP.msi: https://gitlab.com/fontmirror/archive/-/raw/master/GBEXTSUP.msi https://web.archive.org/web/20070225125341/http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/8/7/18768939-1a24-4d22-8d7f-752ad153a800/GBEXTSUP.msi

Then extract this file _4E06AB84F4EE7D106A4678B05A5149E4: (it's a CAB file)

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Then move this file _DD51F6E182AA4BC2A6E54424035DDADB to SimSun18030.ttc.

This is SimSun18030.ttc.

ronaldtse commented 4 years ago

shasum -a 256 GBEXTSUP.msi 2b671606fc660948cb4b147a9d5a5060a179b6ececc852241d31ba9558f2e776 GBEXTSUP.msi

ronaldtse commented 3 years ago

This TTC provides these two fonts:

According to https://www.pinyinjoe.com/pinyin/pinyin_xpfonts.htm ,

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SimSun is the proportional version, NSimSun is the monospaced version.

18030 represents GB 18030 which is the PRC standard for wider Unicode support (SimSun-18030 is intended to replace SimSun).

This also means that we should use "SimSun-18030" instead of "SimSun" in metanorma-gb (https://github.com/fontist/formulas/issues/58)