From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 01:06:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A82106567D for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:06:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from runner.otenet.gr (runner.otenet.gr [195.170.0.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F35E8FC13 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:06:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [83.235.67.32]) by runner.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m5INeiT5027076 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:06:18 +0300 Received: from atlantis.dyndns.org (athedsl-279062.home.otenet.gr [85.73.137.180]) by rosebud.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m5FJdJr4026360; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:39:19 +0300 Message-ID: <48556FE7.7070001@otenet.gr> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:39:19 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tore Lund References: <48556D3A.2000306@next.online.no> In-Reply-To: <48556D3A.2000306@next.online.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Dimitris Giakoudis Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Greek support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:06:22 -0000 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