On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > If you yearn for the old days
>
> You seem to have a very slow mind.
I don't know whose mind is slow. I gave all the necessary information
and you couldn't still make it work. Here's one more try with a
step-by-step instruction (actually, there's not much to tell you because
you must have taken most of these steps)
1. download Sun Indic fonts, which you already did.
2. Put them (there are two of them) into a directory of your choice
(say, /usr/local/share/fonts), which you must have done already.
3. Edit /etc/fonts/local.conf or $HOME/.fonts.conf
and add the directory above to the font search path.
You can skip this step if you throw fonts into
one of directories or its subdirectory already listed in
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf, /etc/fonts/local.conf and $HOME/.fonts.conf
like /usr/share/fonts or /usr/share/fonts/indic
3b. although not necessary (because fontconfig
scans font directories regularly), run the following, if you
want to make sure.
fc-cache -v -f <directory_name>
4. Lanuch Mozilla (built with CTL and Xft) and enjoy. Your web page
was written in such a way that no further configuration is necessary
on Mozilla's side.
5. _Optionally_, go to font pref. panel of Mozilla and set Devanagari fonts to
Sun's fonts. Also make sure 'allow documents to use other fonts'
is NOT checked. This is necessary for viewing other Hindi pages.
Because most other Hindi sites don't specify 'lang=hi' [1], you have
to launch Mozilla under hi_IN locale (i.e.
'LC_ALL=hi_IN.UTF-8 mozilla') [2]
For X11core build (with CTL but NOT with Xft), you have to follow the
step (which can be simplified slightly with chkfontpath available on
FC1/RH/Mandrake) described at (or equivalent
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176315#c14
(The last two fields of XLFD for Sun Indic fonts should be
'sun.unicode.india-0' instead of 'hykoreanjamo-1'). See also
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939
With the encoding file for Sun Indic fonts, you don't need
to make aliases.
If you want to use 'standard' opentype fonts for Devanagari, you can
try the latest (but still old/outdated) patch
at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215219
[1] BBC Hindi site will begin to use 'lang=hi' in a couple of weeks.
[2] You don't have to once Mozilla bug 208479 is fixed.
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