https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=380
Product: drakxtools
Component: program
Summary: getting windows fonts: iso8859-1 encoding only?
Version: 1.1.9-8mdk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I used "Get windows fonts" button in drakfont and it did copy and installed all
my TT fonts from windows partition. However, the fonts.dir file it created only
contains XLFD with encodings iso8859-1 and adobe-fontspecific. Thus, e.g. in
evolution I saw empty boxes whenever I tried to use one of these fonts for
viewing emails with Cyrillic symbols. In fact, these TT fonts actually contain
glyphs for much more than iso8859-1: e.g., Verdana covers all iso8859-*,
koi8-*, and others (I verified it by copying to this direcotry file
encodings.dir, then running ttmkfdir).
This is frehs install of LM 9.0 final. I didn't have this problem with previous
version of LM (8.1 - I skipped 8.2).
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-12-19 23:15 -------
Yes, there are two programs that can create fonts.dir files; there
is /usr/X11R6/bin/mkttfdir that is the officially supported by XFree86;
and /usr/sbin/ttmkfdir, an old program that we were using in previous mandrake
distributions.
The problem is that mkttfdir only output lines for a very few X11 encodings
(namely iso8859-1, and japanese ones).
An update of the drakxtools should be done with a corrected drakfont that uses
ttmkfdir again (and also, "xftcache ." should be run on the ttf and type1
directories when adding or removing fonts).
Thanks
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