Bug 8604
| Summary: | intlfonts is missing from distribution | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | pavel.janik |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | David Mason <dcm> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-05-05 20:05:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
pavel.janik
2000-01-19 15:11:32 UTC
assigne to XFree86 we include alternative international fonts instead. What benefits do these GNU fonts offer over those we already include? Hello, intlfonts are primarily not about X. They are shared with GNU Emacs too. What are the benefits of including them in the standard distribution? It is simple - try C-h h in Emacs and print the buffer. With intlfonts properly installed you will get very nice document and you can properly use multilanguage support of Emacs. I've put the sample to http://www.math.muni.cz/~weed/hello.ps.gz Have a look. I think that the person who created the Emacs package did not read the INSTALL file at all. The leim package was added too when I requested it! Thank you for solving this issue. Please move it back to Emacs from XFree... Dave: what do you think of this? This package is something like 25M - it'll never fit on the disk as is - having said that there are some interesting *more obscure* character sets in there for languages. We could make a stipped down version (remove what we don't already have in X and get rid of real low res ones) - perhaps a candidate for the powertools disk if nothing else. Pango is something else to keep in mind - it will be able to take use of these fonts and that is a bonus. My vote - strip it down to a reasonable size... if it fits on the main disk, fine.. if not get it on powertools (assuming there is room there) not sure if this was put on powertools or not - I still think it is rather large for the dist compared to what is there |