Just posted this on the public Ng, but anyway, I thought, it's be nice to share.
It is something that IMHO needs to be added on the next release of Mandrake. Foreign newbies will find it amazingly usefull. As a native Greek myself, when I first installed MANDRAKE 8.1, there was an option for greek. I chose that and I got greek alright, but I couldn't write greek, I could only see greek on the setup procedure and some pop-ups, not many though. Anyway, after some basic research I found that only a few clicks away there was full support for my native language. Here is what I did: (the arial font is optional here) 1. Import Arial from Windows with the KDE tool. 2. Chose Arial Fonts for averything on the KDE--> fonts menu. 3. EXTREMELY helpfull for every foreign user: Choose CHARSET for specific language on KMail(e.g.for greek it's iso-8859-7). This ensures foreign language email exchange between Windows and Mandrake. I believe that a script for the first setup that does all that *or similar* would make life easier for every foreign newbie, we all greek users are familiar with Windos' ability to have greek ready for us. A script like this, would expose Mandrake to every foreign user, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Russian, etc. etc .etc. - Thanks
