Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 4816
Type1 fonts whose names end in "koi8-r" aren't displayed properly
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:51 EDT
(1) Download this file and unpack the fonts therein: ftp://ftp.kapella.gpi.ru/pub/cyrillic/psfonts/gs-type1_koi8_fonts.tgz (2) Copy the following to fonts.dir: 16 cokoi8n.pfb -er-kurier cyr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r cokoi8i.pfb -er-kurier cyr-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r cokoi8b.pfb -er-kurier cyr-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r cokoi8bi.pfb -er-kurier cyr-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r arial8.pfb -mt-arial cyr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r ariali8.pfb -mt-arial cyr-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r arialbd8.pfb -mt-arial cyr-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r arialbi8.pfb -mt-arial cyr-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r cour8.pfb -mt-courier cyr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r couri8.pfb -mt-courier cyr-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r courbd8.pfb -mt-courier cyr-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r courbi8.pfb -mt-courier cyr-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r times8.pfb -mt-times cyr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r timesi8.pfb -mt-times cyr-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r timesbd8.pfb -mt-times cyr-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r timesbi8.pfb -mt-times cyr-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r (3) Do "xset +fp $PWD" (4) Run "xfontsel" to look at these fonts. The fonts show ASCII characters only; all the Russian letters are blank. Now edit font.dir, and change "koi8-r" to something else, like "foo-r" or "koi-s". Do "xset fp rehash", run "xfontsel" again, and Russian letters magically appear! This behavior is new to Red Hat 6.0. How do I configure X to display *all* glyphs of *all* fonts, regardless of name?
fonts.dir got mangled. Each line should start with the name of a .pfb file.
verified correct. I am talking to the author of xfsft about why this may be happening.
From the xfsft author: The fonts are buggy. Actually, it's a bug in ttf2pt1. I've had an extended discussion with the developers of the latter program, and after an exchange of a couple of dozen e-mails they have refused to modify their software. Basically, before xfsft X11 used to be broken w.r.t. international Type 1 fonts. For this reason, people generate fonts that work around the bugs in X11. Xfsft makes the renderer comply with the Adobe standards. This is standard behaviour in XFree86 3.9 and later, so I suggest you keep it in. Workarounds are described in http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/encodings.html