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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:24:26AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: |
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>Well there are a few problems, but yes I cannot name them now. |
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>Using Japanese, Cyrillic and English in a few encodings each is a big nightmare. |
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It's true! We in xUSSR use KOI8-R, KOI8-U, CP1251 ( aka Windows-1251), |
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CP866. |
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>Nowadays I try to move everything to UTF-8, but there are those windoze users |
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>and webdevs that make all Japanese in Shift_JIS ... So support of wide range of |
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>encodings is a must, but UTF-8 is the truth. |
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>> The only thing that's nasty: we don't have any good utf8-fonts for the console. |
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>And not only the console. |
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>Even for xterm there are not many good fonts (known to me) that display both Japanese |
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>and Cyrillic in regular and bold. Currently there is only on combination that works for me. |
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What about terminus and UniCyr (unicode font from console-tools-cyrillic)? |
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I am use this fonts and most of russian speaking people says what this |
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font is the best font for cyrilic charsets. |
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I am don't see any issues in fonts for me. |
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>So fonts, font config and related stuff is what has to be fixed first. |
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WBR, Alexander Simonov (DEVL-UANIC) |
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Ukrainian Gentoo Community Coordinator |
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