standard fonts and euro

[Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang@contre.com>]

Hi,


I am converting all of my system to ISO-8859-15 and I notice that just
the "fixed" font has a 8859-15. It would be great to have standard
fonts such as Times, Helvetica, ... be compatible with this encoding.

Now, it seems that the fonts coming with XFree86 are copyrighted by
Adobe. So what are the alternatives for us ?
Could we, for example, take the 8859-1 and modify it ?
Can we create an new helvetica, have it named "helvetica" too (a
couple of font vendors have an "helvetica" in their catalog).
Or, worse, do we have to create a new font with a new name and just
have some aliases for them?

Say we create a new font, can we have a look (zooming or viewing in a
font editor) at those fonts in order to avoid efforts ?

Or, do we have to sing the free software song and make a revolution to
abolish copyright ?


W.