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