From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 30 19:09:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18520 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from TYO203.gate.nec.co.jp (TYO203.gate.nec.co.jp [202.32.8.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18515 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shiozaki@ased.mt.nec.co.jp) Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailsv-le1 [192.168.1.90]) by TYO203.gate.nec.co.jp (8.9.1a/3.7W98092815) with ESMTP id LAA28716 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:09:03 +0900 (JST) Received: from asede1.ased.mt.nec.co.jp (asede1.ased.mt.nec.co.jp [133.201.62.3]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.9.1a/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id LAA16320 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:09:03 +0900 (JST) Received: from mtasedms.ased.mt.nec.co.jp (mtasedms [133.201.62.1]) by asede1.ased.mt.nec.co.jp (8.8.5+2.7Wbeta5/3.5Wbeta) with ESMTP id LAA12235 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:11:56 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost ([133.201.213.33]) by mtasedms.ased.mt.nec.co.jp (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with ESMTP id 407; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:10:13 +0900 To: devel@XFree86.Org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anybody from the XFree86 team here ? From: Takuya SHIOZAKI In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:32:48 -0400" <3612A380.5A1E9F1C@ics.com> References: <3612A380.5A1E9F1C@ics.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on Emacs 19.28 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) My-Status: haiboku-in="Aoi MATSUBARA"; bukatsudou="Marsh Mallow Club" For-Your-Information: X-TrueType Server Ver1.0 is available now!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19981001111023D.shiozaki@ased.mt.nec.co.jp> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:10:23 +0900 (JST) X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 41 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Subject: Re: anybody from the XFree86 team here ? Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:32:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3612A380.5A1E9F1C@ics.com> > > I still think that the matter is fairly important > > for X11 i18n, so this is my next try :-) It is important that we design and implement better I18N facility for not only X11 but also any Free-Unix. Locale implementation on the Free-Unix is poorer than Commercial-Unix's one (for instance, the locale implementation on Solaris-2.{5,6} is very good). That is fatal to make also I18Nized X11 application, since it seems that X11 and XFree86 prefer to use OS locale basically, instead of X11 own locale facility. Also, that matter often makes us confuse. For example, FreeBSD users in Japan can remember such confusion by seperated libxpg4 from libc. And Linux users in Japan can remember such confusion by changing the standard C library from libc5 to libc6 on some distributions, too. Now Free-Unix locale implementation is not enough to make and use I18N-ized applications. It is the serious probrem for us. > > I'm working on conversion of TTF fonts into Type1 format. > I have to wonder why you want to go this way, when at this point in time > just about everyone is using the new TrueType fontserver. And before too > long XFree86 will release servers that can use TTF fonts directly. FreeBSD ports-current/packages-current has been containing our X-TrueType Server Version1.0 [Aoi MATSUBARA Release 0]. You need only to invoke pkg_add to use TrueType-fied XFree86 Server, based on 3.2.2.3. If you use RedHat Linux, Slacware Linux, Debian GNU/Linux and/or TurboLinux distributions, you can use the X-TT binary packages we have already prepeared, too. -- Takuya SHIOZAKI, the X-TrueType Server project. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message