Re: A question of fonts
On Sat July 28 2007 16:18, andy wrote:
> Alan Ianson wrote:
> > On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote:
> >> Alan Ianson wrote:
> >>> On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> >>>> On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote:
> >>>>> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts
> >>>>> package to use for a desktop machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have only installed one font package and have no experience
> >>>> with any others.
> >>>>
> >>>> msttcorefonts
> >>>>
> >>>> It is available in the debian-multimedia repository.
> >>>> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
> >>>
> >>> This package is in contrib. No need for debian-multimedia for this one.
> >>
> >> I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with
> >> Xmms and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly
> >> Xmms is the worst of the bunch.
> >
> > Are you using utf-8 by chance? I haven't made the switch to utf-8 because
> > a number of apps I use (mostly console) don't look right when I use it.
> > This sounds similar but I don't know for sure.
>
> I really don't know. How could I tell?
If you type env in a term what is lang= set to? You can adjust that setting by
running "dpkg-reconfigure locales".
I think etch uses utf-8 by default. A better solution would be if packages
were utf-8 capable. It may be that xmms and iceweasel are not utf-8 aware but
my knowledge if this stuff is sketcky at best.
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