Subject: Re: Unix Font Packs for non-Latin1 locales
From: Gabriel Gerhardsson (mr.g@home.se)
Date: Mon Sep 03 2001 - 04:25:31 CDT
Sure
Here's the spec file and the script.
Of to lectures
/Gabriel
On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 09:02, Martin Sevior wrote:
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> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
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> > their way through the Unix font mess. Certainly a set of font packs
> > for the most common locales is, I think, an absolute must before ve
> > release 1.0.
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> I agree. The best way to this is via rpm's. We should be able to make
> small modifications to Gabriel's ispell hash spec files to build these
> font packs.
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> Any volenteers?
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> Could you post your modified SPEC files to the list Gabriel?
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> Thanks
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> Martin
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> >
> > Also the front page of the AW download site should contain clear
> > notice that the standard font pack included with Unix version of AW
> > is only suitable for iso8859-1, and a link to the location where
> > additional font packs can be found. This should be done straight
> > away, even without any font packs available at the moment; it will
> > make it possible to put the packs up as we get them, and also
> > warn people about the fact that there are locale specific issues with
> > AW on Unix (also the download site should encourage people to
> > contribute pack for locales not yet represented). Sam, would you
> > have time to make these changes to the website?
> >
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> I agree.
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> > It might also be worth considering to pop out a warning message
> > box when AW is run under a locale other than iso-8859-1 and only
> > the standard fonts are found. I have got the feeling that many
> > ordinary users simple expect that since they have their Unix locale
> > properly set up, AW will work out of the box, especially since they
> > see all the menus localised into their language; well, that is
> > nowhere near the reality.
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> This should be straight foward. We just have to determine the directory
> name from the users locale and see if a the directory exists and contains
> fonts.
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> If not popup our standard popup message.
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> Martin
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