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From: Alexander Simonov <devil@gentoo.org.ua>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:46:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060304124632.GE18469@saber.gentoo.org.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4404793A.6060701@thinrope.net>

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:24:26AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
>Well there are a few problems, but yes I cannot name them now.
>Using Japanese, Cyrillic and English in a few encodings each is a big nightmare.
>

It's true! We in xUSSR use KOI8-R, KOI8-U, CP1251 ( aka Windows-1251),
CP866.

>Nowadays I try to move everything to UTF-8, but there are those windoze users
>and webdevs that make all Japanese in Shift_JIS ... So support of wide range of
>encodings is a must, but UTF-8 is the truth.
>
>> The only thing that's nasty: we don't have any good utf8-fonts for the console.
>And not only the console.
>Even for xterm there are not many good fonts (known to me) that display both Japanese
>and Cyrillic in regular and bold. Currently there is only on combination that works for me.
>
What about terminus and UniCyr (unicode font from console-tools-cyrillic)?
I am use this fonts and most of russian speaking people says what this
font is the best font for cyrilic charsets.
I am don't see any issues in fonts for me.

>So fonts, font config and related stuff is what has to be fixed first.
>

-- 
    WBR, Alexander Simonov (DEVL-UANIC)
    Ukrainian Gentoo Community Coordinator
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-04 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-28 10:58 [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default? Patrick Lauer
2006-02-28 11:32 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-02-28 11:47   ` Patrick Lauer
2006-02-28 12:11     ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-02-28 14:27     ` Mike Frysinger
2006-02-28 12:50 ` Lars Weiler
2006-02-28 13:50   ` Patrick Lauer
2006-02-28 14:46     ` Joseph Jezak
2006-02-28 16:24   ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-03-04 12:46     ` Alexander Simonov [this message]
2006-03-04 20:13       ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-02-28 16:51 ` Josh
2006-02-28 17:47 ` solar
2006-02-28 17:53   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-28 18:25   ` Bryan Østergaard
2006-02-28 19:18   ` Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
2006-02-28 20:23     ` solar
2006-02-28 23:51 ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2006-03-08  7:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mathieu Bonnet
2006-03-09 20:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
2006-03-11 20:29 ` Eldad Zack

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