Michael Menegakis wrote: > Just posted this on the public Ng, but anyway, I thought, it's be nice to > share. > > It is something that IMHO needs to be added on the next release of Mandrake. > Foreign newbies will find it amazingly usefull. > > As a native Greek myself, when I first installed MANDRAKE 8.1, there was an > option for greek. I chose that and I got greek alright, but I couldn't > write greek, I could only see greek on the setup procedure and some > pop-ups, not many though. > > Anyway, after some basic research I found that only a few clicks away there > was full support for my native language. > > Here is what I did: > > (the arial font is optional here) > > 1. Import Arial from Windows with the KDE tool. > > 2. Chose Arial Fonts for averything on the KDE--> fonts menu. > > 3. EXTREMELY helpfull for every foreign user: Choose CHARSET for specific > language on KMail(e.g.for greek it's iso-8859-7). This ensures foreign > language email exchange between Windows and Mandrake. > > I believe that a script for the first setup that does all that *or similar* > would make life easier for every foreign newbie, we all greek users are > familiar with Windos' ability to have greek ready for us. A script like > this, would expose Mandrake to every foreign user, Japanese, Chinese, > Greek, Russian, etc. etc .etc. >
That s what currently happens (and happened for a long time). Russian works OOTB. If there are particular problems with Greek, post it to cooker-i18n list. Importing Windows fonts is a matter of local preferences and should not be done automatically. -andrej
