The "Wen Quan Yi"，chinese open source bitmap and outline fonts project

The "Wen Quan Yi" is the chinese open-source project, it aim to create high-quality open-source bitmap and outline fonts for all CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) characters.

There are about 70,000 Han characters currently encoded by the Unicode Standard 4.0, including the CJK Unified Ideographs (U+4E00~U+9FA5, 20,902 characters), CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A(U+3400~U+4DB5, 6,582 characters), CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B (U+20000~U+2A6D6, 42,711 characters), together with many other CJK related unicode blocks.

A notable distinction between this project and other open-font development efforts is its extensive utilization of Wiki engine for collaborative font glyph creations. Bitmap editing and vector stroke analysis GUIs were written with Javascript and Web2.0 technology with Wiki at the back-end. This open editing environment greatly facilitate the collaborations between contributors. A new Wiki engine, referred to as Wiki2, written by FangQ also approaches its release date, which features object-oriented hierarchical wiki structures, rules and inheritance, plugin modularization etc. The WenQuanYi wiki will be gradually migrate into the new Wiki2 engine and expect to provide more convenient functionalities for font developments.