Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-11-17 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
FWIW, yesterday I setup LANG=am_ET.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and rebooted. Sugar was not even able to start (I am using the latest stable image). Pure X server starts ok. There were errors during the boot process as well (some services reported FAILED startup). If anyone is interested, I could

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-11-17 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Bernardo, Would you try the Ethiopian XIM in en_US locale (replacing Compose file)? Sergey On 8/24/07, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergey Udaltsov wrote: FWIW, yesterday I setup LANG=am_ET.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and rebooted. Sugar was not even able to start (I am

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-11-17 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
I'm afraid I'm totally ignorant of the subject. How is the Xlib compose handling supposed to work in applications? Would it also work in Write.activity? First, you should replace Compose file (in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8). In addition, setting GTK_IM_MODULE=xim should explain gtk+

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-11-17 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Bernardo, When you replace simplified fonts with the full version: are you able to input Ethiopean with the code provided? Sergey On 8/22/07, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I'm moving to devel@ so we don't need to Cc too many people) Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Sergey Udaltsov

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Sergey Udaltsov wrote: Would you try the Ethiopian XIM in en_US locale (replacing Compose file)? I'm afraid I'm totally ignorant of the subject. How is the Xlib compose handling supposed to work in applications? Would it also work in Write.activity? By the way, the am_ET.UTF-8 locale

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-24 Thread Jim Gettys
Also note that we need Pango 1.18 (just released) for Ethiopian to work; J5 says this is now in our builds. On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 10:01 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Sergey Udaltsov wrote: Would you try the Ethiopian XIM in en_US locale (replacing Compose file)? I'm afraid I'm totally

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-24 Thread Jim Gettys
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 22:26 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: Is it in the latest _stable_ build? Should I wait for the new one? Or should I rather risk installing today's devel build? No, current builds.. Eg. 556, which I installed on 3 systems (B3, B4, and CTest) this afternoon.

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
Bernardo Innocenti writes: It turns out that the DejaVu font has the Ethiopian glyphs, but there's also a simplified font called DejaVuLGC which is what we're shipping on the OLPC. (LGC means Latic,Greek,Cyrillic -- simple left-to-right stuff) This situation is partly because the mere

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Sergey Udaltsov wrote: FWIW, yesterday I setup LANG=am_ET.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and rebooted. Sugar was not even able to start (I am using the latest stable image). Pure X server starts ok. There were errors during the boot process as well (some services reported FAILED startup). If

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-22 Thread linaccess
Hello Bernardo, All, I wonder about shipping DejaVuLGC, too. I ask the same questions a few weeks ago on #olpc / #sugar but didn't get an answer. Ok, it is irc and not a mailinglist. Thanks for posting it here. IMHO we should try to switch from DejaVuLGC to DejaVu. Frontiers are not perforce

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-22 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Sergey Udaltsov wrote: When you replace simplified fonts with the full version: are you able to input Ethiopean with the code provided? I assumed it would, but now I installed the dejavu-fonts RPM and the Ethiopean glyphs still don't display neither in the Write activity, nor in the Web

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-21 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
(I'm moving to devel@ so we don't need to Cc too many people) Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Sergey Udaltsov wrote: I cannot tell you which font was used by my Ubuntu - I just see those glyphs rendered more of less correctly (see attached). If you're interested, I can provide you with the list