I've been force to investigate a good deal about fonts, encodings, and related subjects, of late. The most significant thing I've learned is that this is a much more complex area than I ever imagined. This investigation has caused me to wonder what the foundation of all this is. If anybody knows, I like to also know a bit about the following: What determines the actual encoding system used? That is, If I set "Edit sysconfig variables" ->Basic-Administration ->Localization ->rc_lang=en_US.UTF-8m what actually changes? What files define the encoding? What components are involved in loading these files and makeing use of them? How are application programs supposed to make use of these settings? I'm looking for the 'block-level' diagram of all this. STH -- Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law
I have always found fonts in UNIX/Linux a complete mystery. I am dealing now with two installations of SuSE 8.1 done in Japanese where:
both systems have access to the Mincho font, but one system always scrunches up the text (characters overlay each other) while the other it is perfect.
one system has two extra Japanese fonts (唐風ゴシック and 唐風something else I can't remember), but the other system does not have it and it does not matter how many font related things I try to install... even installation the same product mix (eg. OpenOffice 1.0.1 and StarOffice 6.0) I can't get these two fonts to appear.
Fonts and foreign languages is quite difficult. Please, any advice that points me in the right direction with regards beginning to attack this would be appreciated. Perhaps the fresh approach that mine would be might uncover something?
"Steven T. Hatton"
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 10:38 am, Nettles David wrote:
I have always found fonts in UNIX/Linux a complete mystery. I am dealing now with two installations of SuSE 8.1 done in Japanese where: both systems have access to the Mincho font, but one system always scrunches up the text (characters overlay each other) while the other it is perfect. one system has two extra Japanese fonts (唐風ゴシック and 唐風something else I can't remember), but the other system does not have it and it does not matter how many font related things I try to install... even installation the same product mix (eg. OpenOffice 1.0.1 and StarOffice 6.0) I can't get these two fonts to appear.
Fonts and foreign languages is quite difficult. Please, any advice that points me in the right direction with regards beginning to attack this would be appreciated. Perhaps the fresh approach that mine would be might uncover something?
This is a very unfinished crash course on fonts in XFree86. The operative word here is _crash_! :-) There may be something in there (particularly at the end of one of the links) which you will find helpful: http://baldur.globalsymmetry.com/proprietary/com/wri/ch05.html I'm hoping to find time to flesh that document out, and add a much better discussion of keyboard mappings as well. It may end up coming out of the Mathematica document, and forming part of a more specialized document. Unfortunately the subjects of fonts and encodings is kind of like quicksand. The more I get into it, the more I'm stuck; the harder I fight, the deeper I go. The best advice I can give is to look over both installs particularly the /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/ directories. Compare what you find there. Also try `xlsfonts | less' on both systems, if you haven't already. Also compare what X related packages you have installed. Checking `locale' might also prove informative. STH -- Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law
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