The Windows fonts are not in general free. Some of them are not even
Microsoft's.
Jony
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hetz Ben Hamo
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 2:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Bidi support for Linux
>
>
> Mati, Rega Ehad ;)
>
> > The suggestions we received can be classified as follows:
>
> I'm affraid you're either mixing or stepping on other toes (projects that are
> done or being done)
>
> > Basic Support:
> > Keyboard mapping <- already done. Look inside XFree 4.0.3 or the
> upcoming XFree-4.1
> > Fonts <- Someone from KDE is working on adding the Windows fonts.
> Mandrake also have a nice utility to add Windows fonts to your Linux. Debian
> got a smart package to download fonts from MS and to install it. Why do
> duplicate work?
> > UTF-8 <- why?? everything is now unicode including QT 3 and GTK 2
>
> > GUI
> > QT/KDE } - care to elaborate? you might (again) want to do
> > GTK/Gnome } - some stuff that someone is already doing
>
> > Applications
> > Word processor <- Abiword got already some bidi support. I think a
> little help is needed there
> > Emacs <- donno
> > Vim <- I think there is a hebrew version of vim available.
> >
>
> > Internet
> > Browser (this is not really needed, since the Bidi-enabled Mozilla is
> > now released)
> True.
>
> >
> > Porting Tools
> > Wine
> Umm, to do hebrew for wine, you don't need much work actually, you can ask
> the team that did the OS/2 hebrew support to give it to you. Same algoritms
> with minor changes that were reflected on Windows 9x. But IMHO I would put
> wine Hebrew efforts in the last priority (heck, you don't have there even
> decent fonts support for any language)
>
> > As you can see, this is quite a demanding list. We are currently weighing
> > our options, before jumping into concrete work. I will send updated info
> > when a decision is taken.
>
> Well Mati, as you can see, your list has been shrinking now ;)
>
> >
> > Shalom (Regards), Mati
>
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> Hetz Ben Hamo
> System Administrator
> Magnifire Websystems Inc.
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