Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:51:40 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: Tore Lund <tl32@next.online.no>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Dimitris Giakoudis <dgiakoudis@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Greek support Message-ID: <4859F3EC.5040609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87y752i1z9.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <CD187C83364C45A98F81CC6301E9BBD9@titan> <48556D3A.2000306@next.online.no> <48556FE7.7070001@otenet.gr> <87y752i1z9.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Done, and pushed along with a few minor other fixes. Manolis
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