Bug 76993
Summary: | Greek support is broken, typing in Greek shows blank spaces. | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dimitris <centos> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 8.0 | CC: | katzj, msf, otaylor |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-12-22 08:56:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Dimitris
2002-10-30 19:04:39 UTC
Have you installed any greek fonts? Yes, Greek fonts are installed (find /usr -name "*8859-7*" shows them). Those are bitmapped fonts, and will only be seen by legacy applications unless you configure your system to provide these bitmapped fonts to Xft based applications as well. You need to install Truetype or Type1 fonts that contain Greek characters in order to have decent Greek fonts in XFree86 in Red Hat Linux 8.0. Bitmap fonts are generally quite ugly, in particular when they're scaled, and as such, bitmap fonts are installed in Red Hat Linux by default with scaling of them disabled. I've carbon copied Owen, in case he'd like to add a comment, however I do not personally consider this an XFree86 bug. It's just a font availability, and configuration issue IMHO. Any comments Owen? I'd suggest grabbing FreeFont from http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/ and putting it into your ~/.fonts directory (then run fc-cache ~/.fonts from the command line for a bit of extra efficiency) They aren't great fonts, but they include Greek and should "just work" with the Red Hat 8 font system. |