[SLE] Disabling the unicode support

From: Sunny (sloncho_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/24/05

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    Hi,
    It seems I need to disable the unicode support on my system for some
    time. My problem is, that I have a bunch of very good Cyrillic fonts,
    but all of them are made for win95-98, and are NOT unicode. All of
    them are TrueType. The problem I'm facing is, that when I use these
    fonts, if I write something in English (latin letters), they are
    rendered OK. But with the Cyrillic letters, all the text is displayed
    in the default font for the system. This is not a big surprise, as
    these fonts does not have the scripts for different code pages, they
    have for only one, and the windows way of supporting Cyrillic in the
    past was, that these Cyrillic characters were placed in the latin code
    page in the higher part of the table, replacing some the non used
    codes. And the kbd driver just knew to use these codes when you switch
    to Cyrillic.

    As far as I need to use these fonts only to put some text over some
    pictures, I guess that temporary disabling of the Unicode maybe will
    solve my problem. I just don't want to boot in windows and fight to
    install Gimp or any other drawing program there.

    I'm using SuSE Pro 9.1 and 9.3 with KDE 3.4. So a solution for any of
    these will help.

    Any help will be highly appreciated.

    Cheers
    Sunny 

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Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
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