fonts, locales, charsets

From: Gabriele Persia (g.persia_at_libero.it)
Date: 03/21/04

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:45:52 +0100

    Hi all,

    I need some info (manual/guide/tutorial...) about locales and fonts.

    I would like to understand font in gtk (vs kde) apps.

    1) fonts missing in kde "fonts settings" are available in gtk apps (e.g. XMMS)
    and viceversa.

    2) if I mount a vfat (win98) partition with iocharset=iso8859-15
    konqueror shows file names correctly (e.g. italian letters like à è é ì ò ù )
    while xmms playlist does not (I tried with many fonts and w/wo multibyte
    charset support)

    3) dpkg-reconfigure locales
    Generating locales...
      en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
      en_US.ISO-8859-15... done
      en_US.UTF-8... done
      it_IT.ISO-8859-1... done
      it_IT.UTF-8... done
      it_IT.UTF-8@euro... done
      it_IT.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
    Generation complete.

    default is "en_US.ISO-8859-15".

    I'm sure I don't need them all, which one should I drop safely? (I need
    italian locale with euro support)

    4) sometime (when locale is not ISO-8859-1) I get these warnings:

    Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
    or
    Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

    Is there any book or any web-page where I can find info ?

    Thanks in advance.
    Gabriele

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