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Re: Russian Fonts for Gnome



On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, John Darrington wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:25:20PM +0200, Serge Olkhowik wrote:
>      Could you describe us all your environment and soft versions?
>
>      I'm using unstable and GTK-2 applications display me correct fonts.
>
> OK.  Here's the spec of my kernel, X version and all the environment
> variables.   Is there anything else which you need to know ?
>
> Linux marilyn 2.4.22-1-686 #6 Sat Oct 4 14:09:08 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
> GDM_LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8

Hello. Maybe I have missed some earlier details, sorry if so.

It seems only the two environment variables I left above MAY be of
relevance for the subject. Maybe you try to change the default locale to
ru_RU.KOI8-R. It seems easier and "more default" to set-up the language
environment for KOI8-R. It was painless for me to use just

set-language-env

(from the language-env package).

As for font environment in general, the output of following commands are
useful:

xset q

(the part related to Font Path)

and (if according to the default, the 1st part of the path is like
unix:/7100), the "catalogue" field from /etc/X11/fs/config.

Two more commands to obtain info useful for helping you are

dpkg -l|fgrep font|fgrep

and

dpkg -l|fgrep language-env

At last, did you try to launch an X term with manually specified font?

xterm -fn 10x20-cyrillic &

(this will use KOI8-r font).

Some sysadmins in this maillist do use UTF-8, and there was some
discussion of the subject here but I did not follow it. At last the
package list search does not immediately yield a package with UTF-8
Cyrillic fonts. So try setting up in KOI8-R first and explore UTF option
later on.

Good luck!

Andrei Demekhov
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Dr. Andrei G. Demekhov
Senior Scientist
Institute of Applied Physics
Russian Academy of Sciences
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603950 Nizhny Novgorod
Russia
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