Re: Request for jgroff help
>>>>> In <20010524225942.64d11daa.dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
>>>>> Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
>> Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk> immo vero scripsit
>> > I haven't decided yet how this is going to interact with my new
>> > packaging (see bug #53225). The programs in groff-base will be compiled
>> > with Japanese support, but since the Japanese fonts etc. are very large
>> > I doubt they'll go in the base system package. Depending on what
>> > fraction of the groff package they turn out to be, they'll either go in
>> > groff or in a separate groff-ja plug-in package.
>>
>> Whatever it is, if someone remotely logs in via terminal, and tries to
>> view a Japanese-language manpage, the machine will not
>> need any Japanese font. The client would need one, but
>> the server just dumps series of characters.
>>
>> So Japanese support doesn't directly mean it will be big.
Perhaps you miss understand about `font' of this sentence.
Colin Watson talks about font used by groff, not X's fonts.
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ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
<ishikawa@linux.or.jp>, <ishikawa@debian.org>, <ishikawa@redhat.com>
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