Re: Other languages in Linux


J.O. Aho wrote:
jamiil wrote:
Although I mainly use the Central European alphabet, some of my
applications display North/Central/South Europeans as well as Left to
Right letters. Having recently adopted Linux as my choice of OS, or
vice versa, I have noticed that the Linux Applications display these,
Non-English, letters as squares, which is obviously a problem.
What can I do to make Linux applications display this letters
correctly?

This happens in microsoft windows too, you have selected a font that don't
support the character setup you are using, and therefore shows those squares
instead of any character.

You need to change your selected fonts to those that supports the character
setup that you want to have displayed. Try to use those that support UTF-8.

HI J

Just to point out that distros like Mandrake/Conectiva have some
problem with their fonts. I never had such problem with debian or
gentoo. This reminds me, have you heard of new ZFS format? I would to
know your take on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/

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