Bad or non implemented Greek (and other) fonts?

Roland Wolters wolters.liste at gmx.net
Thu Mar 25 17:07:52 UTC 2004


Hi,
I try to get all the fonts on my linux which I need to read Greek or other 
non-latin sites without any problems.
But there are several problems: it seems that fedora comes with a basic Greek 
font, but its far away from correct displaying Greek 
(http://el.wikipedia.org/).
And Hindi is not supported in any way, its impossible to read hindi with 
Fedora Core 2 Test1 as long as you do not try to fix by hand.

Why don't they add the missing files? It seems that XFree86 and X.org are 
having the files they need, following Markus Kuhn at 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html 

Linux do not need all the UTF-8 support as long as its not able to display 
some of the "large" fonts/alphabets (hindi and greek) from start on - I know 
that I can fix it by hand, but thats not the question for the "normal" users.

Roland





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