From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 05:51:46 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 0C2F11065677 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:51:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9737E8FC14 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so984068uge.37 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:51:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qN8QB5wE/2VXD/LPC0WZcBo0THu2MIv20DnZAkRFXL8=; b=v5GzkM8IWlX6QpQFTMJjAmtAqyumXzXcV83JML5fkuezB5J2QwTqfPdeNL1gaBnH1t 4I1QeBajja8lOkRqjM6JoEnyKSPi6Yce5fxLGKCLRNFAaC6TOxxwM/Zv2TASAMhkAN59 sXbmEVH5SKvGluu+07tEI+vfiKz4HuCkBNy/U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Nkjw7ao6+2yiGPnu8VGzSVT+oXVRuiCkAy84VzalilgI9/YJg6oGeC3EiIY+kExw3m Pg+xG683wgaosVkXX5EN5dqOUS4jtzar1LyjZSeYe0R2C4T5Ep0yvbVg7P5/G54fwYBX 0k05UXGLXrZUt63oK4fK/uijXLN9Co5KJRJlo= Received: by 10.210.37.11 with SMTP id k11mr1470200ebk.70.1213854704150; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.dyndns.org ( [79.131.199.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z33sm317669ikz.0.2008.06.18.22.51.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4859F3EC.5040609@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:51:40 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <48556D3A.2000306@next.online.no> <48556FE7.7070001@otenet.gr> <87y752i1z9.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <87y752i1z9.fsf@kobe.laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tore Lund , 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 05:51:46 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:39:19 +0300, Manolis Kiagias 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