Re: Experiments with classical Greek keyboard input

2006-01-21 Thread Alexandros Diamantidis
[sorry for taking a few days to reply...] * Jan Willem Stumpel [2006-01-18 14:41]: > This does not work in my case. Also interchanging the entries (US first, > then GR) did not work. I mean you can get the accents, but not the > breathing signs. Strangely enough, even calling > > LANG=el_GR.UTF-8

Re: Experiments with classical Greek keyboard input

2006-01-21 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Alexandros Diamantidis wrote: [sorry for taking a few days to reply...] * Jan Willem Stumpel [2006-01-18 14:41]: This does not work in my case. Also interchanging the entries (US first, then GR) did not work. I mean you can get the accents, but not the breathing signs. Strangely enough, even c

character cell fonts and combining characters?

2006-01-21 Thread Rich Felker
i'm facing a problem with the seeming lack of any way to encode correct glyph-combining information in character-cell bdf bitmap fonts for use in x. i've heard of people doing horrible hacks like just making the combining characters zero-width and offset to the left of the cell, so that they natura