Cyrillic font in Chinese encoding?

Question

Why does a word written in Cyrillic font in Chinese encoding looks like this " b o o k " instead of "book"? What was the reason to make Cyrillic letters have more space on the left and right than those of a Latin font?

Answer 1

What are you talking about? Cyrillic is used to write Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, etc... not Chinese? Your question doesn't make sense because Chinese uses characters, not letters within an alphabet of any kind, not Latin, not Cyrillic, etc...



I understand what you're saying but it's very complicated to comprehend:

Chinese doesn't use letters per se, so the characters takes up more space when programming and putting them into code, depending on how the character is written / typed based on character size & shape?



Letters are stringed together based on closeness in space. Since spacing is fixed in alphabetic letters to make them uniform, the same thing can't be said for Chinese because each character takes up a different spacing: the more strokes a character takes up, the more space is needed to "make it fit" into a "square space".

Answer 2

bradley hand ITC TT Handwriting-Dakota Herculanum Zapfino and Monotype Corsiva these are some of my favorites. but of course you can always google fonts or even Cyrillic Fonts

Answer 3

They gave you wrong answers because you stated your question incorrectly :)



There is NO such thing as "Cyrillic font in Chinese encoding"

(it's my work - I am I18n developer, so trust me)



Yes, fonts are made for specific encodings for example:



- Chinese font for Simplified Chinese encoding GB2312

- another, different Chinese font for Traditional Chinese encoding BIG5

- Cyrillic font for Russian encoding KOI8-R

- another, different Cyrillic font for encoding windows-1251

- ...



It's so happened that in most Chinese fonts their designers included Russian letters as part of the glyphs collection.

So say Chinese font for GB2312 encoding has Russian letters in it, so what?

It is _not_ "___Russian font___ in Chinese encoding" -

it's glyphs (pictures) of Russian letters in ___Chinese font___



See?



So whatever font designers decided to to with those Russian glyphs in such Chinese font - their business - they decided to have them as "wide characters" - and you see that 'spacing'.



Same thing is for example for some English letters/glyphs included into Japanese fonts - they "wide Latin letters" - and you will see same "spacing" effect if you type 'wide English A' instead of regular 'English A' - see for example my test page at http://geocities.com/paulgor1/j-sjis.htm -

Romanj 'wide' letters would look as 'having some space' in the text



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But I would not recommend you to use _Chinese_ font for Russian letters - it's bad because the text will belong to Chinese encoding while Russian text has to belong to one of Cyrillic encodings to be processed correctly in various situations



It's much better to use (and it will be no spacing) - for Cyrillic/Russian - standard multilingual Windows fonts (which include Cyrillic letters in _Cyrillic_ encoding 'windows-1251'):

- Arial

- Courier New

- Times New Roman

- Verdana

- Tahoma

- ...



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More about Fonts, Encoding, etc. related to Russian (and Unicode) can be found on my site http://RusWin.net



:)



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Added October 9th



1)

"it doesn't make much difference whether you call them "glyphs", "signs", "symbols" or whatever..."



This is absolutely correct - each one of the above words (and also "character") can be used in the sentence like



"[...] in Chinese font of GB2312 encoding"



But not the variant you used in the Question - you used word "font" which does not make sense.



2) It's exactly what I answered - designers of the Chinese font decided to place Russian letters into 'wide box' - just their decision - as you said, they then fixed that for Latin

Answer 4

Maybe you could provide us with a link so that you could get better answers.