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OK then. You asked for suggestions, you have at least one :-) The Go fonts. Antonis. On 19/11/19 8:28 μ.μ., Jon Trulson
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On 11/19/19 8:55 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:I did not understand... does it (or will it) support ttf fonts?If so, then I think that the go fonts from https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts is a great choice. Because they are of high quality, from a great font designer (Bigelow), and are related with the history of CDE as it was using Lucida on Solaris. The go fonts support many-many codepages including Cyrillic and Greek.Motif can support TTF via the XFT library, which means that CDE can too: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/FontsWithXFT/ -jonAntonis. On 19/11/19 2:51 π.μ., Jon Trulson wrote:Hi, I've just merged the utf8-conversion branch to master. This branch converts the languages from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8. This was done for the message catalogs, resources and other related files. However, documentation (help, manpages, and the dtinfo guides) are still always built using the ISO8859-1 locales. To support UTF-8 documentation, our docbook sources and text need to be updated to something from this century, and ideally from this decade. In addition, a conversion to XML would also be required as a result. So, until that happens, we still need ISO8859-1 for the docs. This also means viewing the docs while in a utf8 locale may show anomalies as non-utf8 8 bit sequences might not be rendered properly. I had tried to convert the docs blindly to utf-8, which worked fine initially, but the tools we are using crapped out all over the place, and especially instant (used to create the help text) crashed quite frequently. I hate instant. So, I decided not to 'hack' it - it needs to be done correctly. There are undoubtedly some issues with this conversion - for example dtterm does not handle UTF-8 sequences properly where 2 or more characters are supposed to be drawn in the same cell (overlay ed) for example. As always, patches welcome. A choice of good ISO10646 X11 fonts also needs to be selected. Ideally fonts that look decent and have a good coverage of the utf-8 character space and will work properly with CDE's rather awkward font configurator. It would be good to explore XFT on CDE too, as this can help - it can select glyphs from other fonts if a font you are using does not support a glyph, for example. Plus all that anti-aliasing goodness, and the generally better quality and completeness of TTF fonts. But, if anyone has suggestions for good fontsets we can configure CDE with (via cde's fonts.alias files), let us know. Since at least linux and the BSD's are using essentially the same X11 environment and software, we should be able to come up with something that will work for most users out of the box. |
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