Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Glyph Shapes in Windows XP vs Vista

In JIS X 0213:2004, the standard shapes of some glyphs are modified. Glyph shape of “MS Gothic” in XP differs that from in Vista. The version of msgothic.ttc,msmincho.ttc is 2.3 on XP, but 5.0 in Vista. Font version 2.5 and 5.0 includes both old "1990" shape and new "2004" shape.

Font version 2.3 – have only old “1990” shapes. (XP’s default)
Font version 2.5 – have both “1990” and “2004” shapes and “1990” shapes as default.
Font version 5.0 – have both “1990” and “2004” shapes and “2004” shapes as default. (Vista’s default)


New font “Meiryo” has only version 5.0 up-to-date.

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