Dear David,
Thank you, can you tell me where to get Deja Vu and how to install
it. One of the many things that I am not experienced with in Linux is
obtaining and installing fonts.
On 5/3/07, David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2007 20:26:53 -0600 "執事尼古拉"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, none of the fonts available seem to help this.
> > I would think any UTF-8 font should be able to show the Chinese
> > characters, but no such luck.
>
> Not all UTF-8 fonts cover the entire Unicode character space, it's a
> big space with thousands of characters. It's also not just a matter of
> fonts, there is the character encoding to consider as well. My copy of
> Firefox has 8 different character encodings covering 3 different
> variations of Chinese, and each of those can have 4 different fonts.
> That's not including the 7 variations on generic Unicode encodings. On
> the other hand, you mentioned that you have taken care of the character
> encoding already.
>
> Since YDL is essentially an English language Linux distro, with TSS
> having too small a staff to cater to all the worlds languages, or even
> a small fraction of the most popular languages, my advice is to speak
> with other Chinese Firefox users and see what solutions they have come
> up with.
>
> I neither speak nor read Chinese, so I can't really offer much advice.
> Both my YDL boxes are currently tied up with some testing so that I
> can't check those web pages right now from YDL. I'll check them under
> YDL later.
>
> A font called DejaVu may help.
>
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Nicholas Stanosheck
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