Re: [I18n] locale.alias is missing en_GB.UTF-8

2003-01-15 Thread starner
Also out of interest, I noticed that en was an alias of en_US, is there a reason for this? Historical reasons? Because Americans wrote the software? Because the population of America is larger then that of Britain? Because it doesn't really matter? In other cases where several countrys have

Re: [I18n] Re: complex scripts

2003-01-14 Thread starner
Is this also an GNU/Linux/X11 term or even a general term? I thought *complex script* is only a Microsoft term. Specially since you cannot define what a complex script is. It's not just a Microsoft term, and while the definition may be hard to agree on, it's not that hard to come up with one,

[Fonts]Thyromanes fonts not working with xft2

2002-09-30 Thread David Starner
someone help me? (For those not running Debian, the fonts can found at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-thryomanes/ttf-thryomanes_1.1-1.tar.gz ). -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falshe fridn iz beser vi a rikhtige krig. / A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb

Re: [Fonts] [I18n] language tags in fontconfig

2002-07-07 Thread David Starner
At 10:34 AM 7/7/02 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Keith Packard wrote: I got the European coverage information from http://www.everytype.com/alphabets I can't find www.everytype.com in the DNS, is that a typo ? Try http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/index.html I'm curious

[Fonts]Re: [I18n]language tags in fontconfig

2002-07-07 Thread David Starner
These aren't that useful, but vo (Volapük): a ä b c d e f g h i j k i m n o ö p r s t u ü v x y z. 0041-0050 0052-0056 0058-005A 0061-0070 0072-0076 0078-007A 00C4 00D6 00DC 00E4 00F6 00FC Punctuation (not listed for Dutch?) is the same as German. As the estimates I've read list maybe 10

Re: [Fonts] [I18n] language tags in fontconfig

2002-07-07 Thread David Starner
At 11:46 AM 7/7/02 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: That's a fine question; I did prune the non-Latin1 glyphs from fr.orth to match existing Latin1 fonts, but I left the non-ASCII glyphs in the coverage because I have no ASCII-only fonts and didn't realize there still were some in the wild. I suppose

Re: [I18n]Re: Make your own TrueType font

2001-10-03 Thread David Starner
of the ugliest non-grunge fonts I've ever seen. I'd much rather start with the Computer Modern fonts -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less

Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question

2001-09-30 Thread David Starner
displayed. And most of them wouldn't suffer that much from coming from a different font. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less