cns11643-kai: init at 0-unstable-2025-01-13

[rypervenche]

This is a new package for a Chinese font created by the Taiwan Ministry of Education. It contains 108,906 characters, including both simplified and traditional variants. It is the Standard script (a.k.a. "Kai"), which is the most common script used in modern printed materials.

A link to the government website that contains the link to the font can be found at the bottom of:
https://www.cns11643.gov.tw/pageView.jsp?ID=59

which leads to the government website:
https://data.gov.tw/dataset/5961 (It's the second ZIP button)

Note: as the download link is hosted on a government site in Taiwan, it's quite slow, but it does eventually download.

This is my first package submission, so if anything needs to be changed, please let me know. I'm happy to be a maintainer for this package and all future packages that I plan to submit.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 25.05 Release Notes (or backporting 24.11 and 25.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[FliegendeWurst]

It seems this source zip changed since you packaged the font.

trying https://www.cns11643.gov.tw/opendata/Fonts_Kai.zip
       >   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
       >                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
       > 100 54.3M  100 54.3M    0     0   185k      0  0:04:59  0:04:59 --:--:--  212k
       > unpacking source archive /build/Fonts_Kai.zip
       > error: zip file must contain a single file or directory.
       > hint: Pass stripRoot=false; to fetchzip to assume flat list of files.

I would suggest to use an archived version

[rypervenche]

It looks like the upstream does not have semantic releases and overwrites each font with the new release. I took a look at how Arch is doing it in their AUR package and they created a repository to store the fonts, however it hasn't been updated in a while.

I went ahead and created a GitHub repository to hold the font, as well as a little update script that I'll automate in the near future so I'll know when a new release comes out for the font. I've updated the package.nix file and squashed the changes.

Please let me know if anything else needs to be changed. Thanks!