On 10.XI.2000 at 16:20 Peter Novodvorsky wrote: > > ++ 09/11/00 18:38 +0200 - Anton Zinoviev: > > console-cyrillic is a package that comes to make the Cyrillic setup on > > the console easier and better. > > I think that we should include this package into console-tools. If it > has some utilities that don't fit into console-tools, than they can be > packaged, but as I know the most part of c-t-cyrillic are fonts, > keymaps and so on and there place is c-t package. BTW, Russian part of > original console-tools is very old and should be replaced. Yann?
Yes, most of the Cyrillic fonts in the package console-tools-data didn't have proper unicode map. I don't know is that problem resolved in the new version or not. If not, then they should be replaced with newer versions from the package console-tools-cyrillic of Victor Wagner and a bug report against console-tools-data can be submitted. The package console-tools-cyrillic contains some completely new Cyrillic fonts with very good design. It seams to me that it is not difficult to add to these fonts the symbols from ISO-8859-1,2,.. and make them useful not only for the Cyrillic languages. Then they should be included in the `console-tools-data' package because currently there is no good Unicode font in it. The Unicode fonts like LatArCyrHeb-??.psf.gz together with application character map such as /usr/share/consoletrans/iso01.acm.gz can be used with any encoding. So the application character maps from the package console-tools-cyrillic should be moved to console-tools-data package. They are only a few and are relatively small (about 800 bytes per encoding). Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>