Kaixo!
> From: Radek Vybiral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Cooker] ISO-8859-* fonts
> why has beta1 ALL ISO-8859-* fonts for X packaged together?
They now are created from a single source of a unicode bitmap font.
> I don't like ISO-8859-{9|13|15} waste my disk space!
> I'm using only ISO-8859-2 fonts for Czech language.
In fact, once XFree86 will be able to recode on the fly the bitmap fonts
the same way it does with TTF, Speedo and Type1, then only one physical
file will be needed, the one for the iso10646-1 one, and nothing more.
But as that is not possible yet, then we need to provide the same support
of 8bit encodings as previously: iso8859-{1,2,5,7,8,9,13,15}.
It is not very practical to package them in different rpm packages, as
that will involve a real huge amount of work, as the various encodings
are mixed in the same directories.
So the question was, do we provide old encodings for bitmap fonts?
And if yes, which ones?
It was decided to provide the ones previously provided (maybe in different
packages for some of them).
Note that some of those encodings are provided since long time; the
difference is now there are also unicode encoded fonts, and the non-unicode
encodings use explicit naming of the encoding in the file name.
You can delete them:
rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*-ISO8859-{3,5,7,8,9,13,15}.pcf.gz
for i in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*
do
( cd $i && mkfontdir )
done
(it is not advisable to delete iso8859-1 fonts, even if you don't use them
some programs can complain loudly)
Note also, that we changed the build options of XFree86 to not build all
possible non unicode font versions; a default compilation of XFree86 is
much worst.
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> Thanks.
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> R.V.
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