To display Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other characters on DiffTool
This package installs fonts which can be used for APPs like DiffTool (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.difftool) to display Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Hangul and many other characters.
Please check licenses below and that your device has 32 MBytes of free flash first!
This package contains the WenQuanYi Font with more than 34000 characters, it supports Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and many other languages:
• wqy-MicroHei.ttf (Apache 2 * / GPL 3 License **)
More Info about it and its sources see:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WenQuanYi
And this package contains the 4 GNU Free Fonts supporting Latin, Cyrillic, South Asian fonts and others:
• FreeMono.ttf (GNU FreeFont License ***)
• FreeMonoBold.ttf (GNU FreeFont License ***)
• FreeSans.ttf (GNU FreeFont License ***)
• FreeSerif.ttf (GNU FreeFont License ***)
More Info about it and its sources see:
https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
All these fonts will be stored into the folder: /sdcard/Android/data/com.difftool.fonts/files/fonts
With any file explorer, you can of course move these files to your external SD card (to save internal flash).
For DiffTool other True Type Fonts can be also downloaded from internet or can be copied from your PC. For example free for private use only is Bitstream Cyberbit see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Cyberbit EXTERNAL LINKS with 32910 chars or have a look at http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html which has more than 64000 characters and is nearly complete.
Nearly all Microsoft Office® and many Mac® **** users do have a licensed "Arial Unicode MS" font on their computer, which has 38917 chars and works with DiffTool too.
* The WenQuanYi Font Apache 2 License:
Copyrights:
- © 2007, Google Corporation
- © 2008-2009, WenQuanYi Project Board of Trustees
- © 2008-2009, mozbug and Qianqian Fang (Droid Sans Fallback extension interface)
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
** The GPL 3 License:
See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
*** The GNU FreeFont License:
Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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.
!!! All license information is also stored as text next to the installed *.ttf files !!!
**** Mac® is a regisered trademark of Apple Inc.
**** Microsoft Office® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation
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