Dear friends: The following is a letter I sent to Kurt Granroth, North American representative for KDE concerning the Cyrillic font in KDE 2.1 (NOT KDE 2.0). Would very much appreciate if others can confirm this. Thank you. Benjamin Dear Kurt: [Using AMD K6-2 400 meg, 128 RAM, dual boot Windows/Linux-Mandrake 7.2] I am writing to you in the hope that this matter can be resolved in time for the final version of KDE 2.1 that will be coming out by March 26. A few days ago I upgraded my KDE 2.0 in Linux-Mandrake 7.2 to KDE 2.1. I had a number of problems, but I am sure they will all be eventually ironed out. I will leave those issues to others. However, as a professional Russian translator, I must tell you in all candor, that I was appalled and horrified at the change in Cyrillic font in KDE 2.1. Please take a look at the following URL: http://www.svoboda.org This is the home of Radio Free Europe. The top part is wired in and is rendered well in good Cyrillic font. But the body of the text in KDE 2.1 uses a botched up, ugly, barely legible font that is simply unacceptable on any professional or even amateur level. And yet the Cyrillic font for this same page in KDE 2.0 is very good and enjoyable to read. Now this may all be my mistake. Perhaps I am hallucinating. Perhaps I did something wrong. I don't know. I went back and reinstalled Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0 and upgraded to KDE 2.01 final (instead of KDE 2.1). I am writing to you to ask you to please investigate this as soon as possible, while there is still time. If I am wrong, my deep apologies. If I am right, please reinstate the fine Cyrillic font in KDE 2.0. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We are talking about thousands upon thousands of Russian users here and abroad. Looking forward to hearing from you. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
