Re: [ft-devel] ftview / ftstring proposal (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 140, Issue 13)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

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On Mon, 19/9/16, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

 Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:09:22 -0400
 From: Alexei Podtelezhnikov <address@hidden>
 To: Werner Lemberg <address@hidden>,
 freetype-devel
     <address@hidden>
 Subject: [ft-devel] ftview / ftstring proposal


> ftview (mode 5):
 List characters in the natural unicode order instead of
 doing "The
 quick brown fox". The "fox" is not ideal anyway because the
 spacing is
 artificial.


Unicode order - or the beginning of unicode/ascii - just puntuations then 
numerals, isn't ideal either.


> ftstring:
 Improve "The quick brown fox" by offering other language
 pangrams from
 this page: http://clagnut.com/blog/2380/. I want to
 add
  
> This should cover most used scripts in the world. What would
 be a
 Mandarin pangram?
 

As far as I know simplified chinese (that's what you mean, right?) does not
have a special set of phonetic symbols like the Japanese kana's. For traditional
chinese in Taiwan, they do have a Mandarin-speaking based phonetic system called
bopomofo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo ), if that's what you want.

Can't find a bopomofo pangram via google though...