SE Asian language & font issues (2)

["James Jones" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Being curious, I experimented a little with my Chinese WP (NJStar 4.3).
Trying out the 'bolding' button (that's on the main toolbar, B I U ,
...), I found out that Chinese characters can indeed be bolded somewhat
(though I haven't done it and I think generally that people should not,
unless the readability of the individual characters is not impaired). It
works normally on roman alphabet stuff. On Chinese characters it spaces
the individual characters a little, but it doesn't seem to thicken the
lines, which is good for readability. So it is a bolding effect, but
it's completely different from the bolding you have for Roman
alphabet-based fonts.

This works, I guess, for all the Chinese character fonts in this WP. 

off-site tech writing/editing/illustration + Chinese/German/Spanish to
English translation

+ cartooning + schematics + other

Jim Jones wrote:
Mats, 

I think that Chinese fonts *should not be bolded*. They're kind of hard
to read in the first place (because they're so complicated)(as to
Korean, I do not know, it might be the same for Korean Hanja characters,
but maybe the regular Korean phonetic Hangul alphabet can be 'bolded').
Probably there are no Chinese fonts that can be bolded. So if you are
working with content that has yet to be translated, the translator will
probably find another way to express the 'bolding' intention of the
original content.  

. . .

Mats Broberg wrote:

Two questions:

- Can anyone suggest typefaces for Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese and Korean where both regular and bold fonts are included? The
one we're using now (SimSun, MingLiu, and BaekmukBatang, respectively)
only contain regular fonts. . . 



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