On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> 2 things:
>
> 1. You'll need the Windows fonts - just copy the c:\windows\fonts directory and
> run "ttmkfdir <your dir>" and then add it to your xfs with
> "/usr/sbin/chkfontpath --add <your dir with full path" and at the end - re-run
> your xfs again..
>
I believe both ttmkfdir and chkfontpath were added to RH6.0 (and also to
Mandrake 6.0). I have no idea how well do they apply to other distros.
> 2. changing the fonts for the various encoding has been added lately - and you
> can see it on the rc2 packages onwards...
>
I didn't understand you: Can Konquerer use iso-8859-8 fonts (with rc2
onwards)?
Also see below
> Hetz
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been following most of the web & Hebrew e-mails here, but still
> > I'm unable to setup the Konqueror to show Hebrew properly.
> >
> > I'm able to setup only the fixed width fonts to show in Hebrew, but
> > not the variable/normal fonts. I am able to select those fonts from
> > the font selector (bible,maariv,rashi,...), but still, it doesn't seem
> > to affect the browser.
> >
> > I'm using Debian 2.2, with KDE 2.0pre (I think it is an August
> > version) , with many Hebrew fonts for X, which works flawlessly with
> > Netscape 4.73
> >
> > Any suggestions ?
In the previous message Hetz seems to have forgotten another major
problem, which is the fonts. Most KDE2 programs need unicode fonts
(iso10646-1). Although Konquerer maybe a special case (see my question
above).
At the moment the only availble Hebrew unicode fonts (besides gnu unifont
and similar limited fonts) are TrueType fonts. The easiest to get -- ones
from microsoft (either from the nearby windows workstation/partition or
from http://microsoft.com/typography - the fonts Arial, Courier New and
Times New Roman (Also Tahoma from Hebrew Windows). They are in some format
of a self-extracting archive, which can also be extracted by cabextract
(search http://freshmeat.net).
Once you have the TTF files, you still need a fonts server that can
display them.
There is xfstt (availble for debian and SuSE) and xfsft . RH6 (and some
others, as mentoined above) patched XFree3's xfs with some patches from
xfsft (or something similar). It also added the (sometimes buggy)
chkfontpath, which helps automates font path changes.
Note that RH's ttmkfdir won't add the iso10646-1 encoding. Its output has
to be slightly edited. I wrote a small script to do that (I don't have the
URL right now, but look for 'ttmkfdir-heb' in the archives of the
ivrix-discuss list).
I think versions of xfstt previous to 1.1 were problematic in terms of
supporting iso8859-8 fonts. I don't know what about unicode encodings.
XFree4 has support for TrueType fonts. However - I don't know much about
it. Can anyone elaborate?
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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