Just a single point here to avoid the misunderstanding: we're discussing the splitting here not only per language but also per weight. The latter split will give a lot more reduction.
Are there numbers for that ?
I'm working in a draft project, will tell the exact MB numbers when I finished. But I think it'll be impressing.
For normal usages like web browsing, we mostly need a single weight (or maybe another one for bold) while the current font contains all multiple weights. We can split them to each package and install only the essential ones as default. The *-cjk-* meta package also points only to these essential weights.
I'm wondering (coming from Latin world) : is italic used at all on CJK fonts, or only "regular" and "bold" ?
Yes, usually we just need the regular weight... thin, light, demi-light, medium, black actually are useless if you're just a normal CJK user. historically, we don't even have italic and bold. we control the font with "size" only. italic and bold were introduced for web. but only bold is frequently used due to the historical reasons. CJK natively doesn't have italic at all. Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner@opensuse.org