Bad or non implemented Greek (and other) fonts?

Roland Wolters wolters.liste at gmx.net
Fri Mar 26 14:14:33 UTC 2004


Once upon a time Roland Wolters wrote:
> I try to get all the fonts on my linux which I need to read Greek or other
> non-latin sites without any problems.
> But there are several problems: it seems that fedora comes with a basic
> Greek font, but its far away from correct displaying Greek
> (http://el.wikipedia.org/).
> And Hindi is not supported in any way, its impossible to read hindi with
> Fedora Core 2 Test1 as long as you do not try to fix by hand.
>
> Why don't they add the missing files? It seems that XFree86 and X.org are
> having the files they need, following Markus Kuhn at
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
>
> Linux do not need all the UTF-8 support as long as its not able to display
> some of the "large" fonts/alphabets (hindi and greek) from start on - I
> know that I can fix it by hand, but thats not the question for the "normal"
> users.
>
I cant understand why no one is interested in that - is my english too bad? DO 
you understand what I mean?

Confused,

Roland





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