From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 2:26:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gray.westgate.gr (gray.westgate.gr [212.205.119.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3A837B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 02:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by gray.westgate.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9N9Q3Y05089; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:26:03 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:26:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: vallo@matti.ee Cc: Xenofon , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for greek Message-ID: <20001023122603.A5016@gray.westgate.gr> References: <20001019153740.11454.qmail@web4403.mail.yahoo.com> <20001020100601.A502@gray.westgate.gr> <20001023105729.A95621@myhakas.matti.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001023105729.A95621@myhakas.matti.ee>; from vallo@myhakas.matti.ee on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:57:29AM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:57:29AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > Does it sound strange if I suggest unicode, or, to be precise, > UTF-8? Are there any things which make ISO8859_* better suited? Well certainly, utf8 is certainly a much preferred solution to the general problem of displaying and writing in one's native language. I just haven't found the time to research the matter of utf8 fonts that include the Greek glyphs for displaying greek text on one's X11 display. Duplicating the efforts of others in this area would be a terrible waste of resources, and I do not have the expertise to build my own utf8 fonts. Glad you mentioned it, though, since it's in the top20 of my huge TODO-list to find out how utf8 and Greek can "live" together under X11. - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message