RPM based distros could probably benefit from this site to install ms core
fonts on linux.

http://kuznetsov.uklinux.net/linux-msttcorefonts.php



On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Pablo Manalastas wrote:

> Install the Windows truetype fonts under X, then
> use under OpenOffice.  You'll find \~n there.
>
> You'll probably need the ttmkfdir utility to create
> the fonts.dir/fonts.scale files.
>
> PMana
>
>
> Quoting Bopolissimus X Platypus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to input the enye character in linux.  for
> > now,
> > i've tried to do it the easy way and am using the Unicode Character Map
> > program (it's in the Office | Accessories menu under Mandrake 10 KDE).
> > I couldn't find it there.  I then tried to find it in the insert
> > special
> > character thing in OpenOffice.  I can't find it there either
> > (apparently that
> > still just looks at the Unicode characters that the Unicode Character
> > Map
> > program looks at.
> >
> > Can anyone point me at how to do that?  I'll be googling too.
> >
> > I found a workaround (Juan Miguel Cacho asked the same thing in
> >
> > http://marc.free.net.ph/message/19991216.121601.49226c7e.html
> >
> > and it had an enye in there, so just cut and pasted that), but is
> > there a canonical way to get the enye though?  and what happens
> > if i paste it from a web page that uses a different character set from
> > the one i'm using, or i'm pasting to a document that uses UNICODE?
> >
> > hehe, there was this:
> > http://lists.q-linux.com/pipermail/plug/2001-December/013908.html
> >
> > but i don't have that man page, and anyway, i think it was dido who
> > said not to assume that the character set is ISO-8859-1.
> >
> > tiger
> >
> > --
> > Gerald Timothy Quimpo  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://bopolissimus.sni.ph
> > Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78"
> >
> >     The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction,
> > is
> >      the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than
> > the
> >      blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is
> >      told simply for the amusement of the company.
> >                             Oscar Wilde
> >
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