On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Max Kovgan wrote: > this thing is covered by the instructions in hebrew kde2: > besides what you did u need to choose the unicode encoding > (10646-1), > and choose fonts with this encoding (misc-fixed or clearyu)
clearlyu is not very readable at the moment (some letters look too much like others). misc-fixed may be ugly (espcially when scaled) but it is certainly readable. > u better add hebrew fonts - truetype and others > e.g. tahoma fonts, elmar fonts. Not all fonts come with a unicode encoding. And not all of those come with the hebrew glyphs. Tahoma is one of the true-type fonts of microsoft (it really is of microsoft: 'microsoft' is listed there as the font foundery, IIRC). Arial is another good sans-serif font. There are some versions of lucida sans with hebrew glyphs, IIRC. (Times New Roman will also do, but is less of a good choice for screen display). For fixed-width fonts you can use either misc-fixed (try to pick a size where it is not scaled: where all the lines are straight). Orther fonts are Courier New and Lucida Console. The elmar fonts, and the Type1 fonts from IBM are not unicode fonts and can not be used for the user interface of KDE2. [misc-fixed and ClearlyU come with XFree. Elmar's fonts are freely distributable and also come with Mandrake. All the other fonts I mentioned are fonts that are not freely distributable. Most of them can be probably fetched from a near-by windows installation. Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New can also be downloaded from http://microsoft.com/typography ] -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
