Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:37:46 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: Tore Lund <tl32@next.online.no>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Dimitris Giakoudis <dgiakoudis@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Greek support Message-ID: <87y752i1z9.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <48556FE7.7070001@otenet.gr> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:39:19 %2B0300") References: <CD187C83364C45A98F81CC6301E9BBD9@titan> <48556D3A.2000306@next.online.no> <48556FE7.7070001@otenet.gr>
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:39:19 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote: > Tore Lund wrote: >> Dimitris Giakoudis wrote: >>> applied the settings and installed 'ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts' and >>> everything is in Greek now. I have a problem though when viewing web >>> pages that are encoded with el_GR, there are spaces among the >>> letters and it is really ugly. >> >> Have you got examples of such web pages? I read some Greek things on >> the Net, and I have no problem with spaces among the letters. > > I know the symptom Dimitris describes and it is easily solved by > installing truetype fonts like the webfonts port or your own truetype > fonts in ~/.fonts Dimitris you may allso want to check your settings > in your shell startup scripts i.e. (assuming bash) > > export LANG=el_GR.ISO8859-7 > or > export LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 Good point. I'm too sleepy right now (the coffee hasn't started kicking in yet from a very early wake up), but it would be nice if we also added a note to the article saying that it is important to have the correct locale environment *before* the X server fires up, to make sure that all X11 programs grok Greek. Manolis, if you feel like it, and you get to it before I do later today, can you add a note like this? If you don't, I'll get around to it when I finish some early morning errands. - Giorgos
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