On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Jean Christophe Andr? < jean-christophe.andre at auf.org> wrote:
> L? Anh S?n a ?crit : > > I had some documents use font vnHelv2, but in ubuntu not had this font. > > I want install this font to my computer. > For your information all TCVN .vn* fonts have a huge problem in > their encoding specification: they "claim" to be encoded as CP1252 > hence they really are using TCVN 5712-3. > > People who created those fonts did that (if I understood correctly) > to allow their use in a western version of MS-Windows/MS-Office. > > Now, it works in Windows, because Windows mainly care about the font > name and do not really check (I assume) the encoding information. > > But it doesn't work in real good OS (ahem ;-) ) like GNU/Linux that > do care a lot about encoding information. > > If you install .vn* fonts on GNU/Linux, they may be used then when > western fonts are needed, because they claim to be western fonts. > The result is that you will see strange characters when visiting > western websites. > > And if we ever wanted to change this "claim", we would end by not > beeing able to display old document using those fonts, because > those "need" to use CP1252 "encoded" fonts instead of TCVN 5712-3. > > > So, to put a conclusion to this (little) explanation, you'd better > convert every old document to Unicode to be able to use them correctly. > > Instead of installing bad old (not unicode) fonts that will just make > a mess in your futur web browsing, you should install the "ovniconv" > utility to help converting these documents to Unicode. > > This utility is available as a standard Debian/Ubuntu package, > easy to install, from the HanoiLUG repository: > http://www.hanoilug.org/dokuwiki/soft:apt:hanoilug > > Configure this repository in your Ubuntu system, then install the > "ovniconv" package and take a look at the documentation in: > /usr/share/doc/ovniconv/README.txt > > Best regards, J.C. > I just copy-paste this great answer in the wiki, http://www.hanoilug.org/dokuwiki/projects:ovniconv:explanationoftheproblem So it can get better and more accurate with the addition. and maybe even a translation -- David Tremblay IT analyst mob: 418-208-3631 jabber: ict4ngo skype : ict4ngo Blog : http://blog.ngowiki.net resume : http://blog.ngowiki.net/resume -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe HTML a ?t? nettoy?e... URL: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20080901/ebaa57c9/attachment.htm
