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Re: Proposal: Cyrillic fonts for XWin (Attn: xorg-x11* maintainer)
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:51:05 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Proposal: Cyrillic fonts for XWin (Attn: xorg-x11* maintainer)
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0408231609070.28950@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Hi, Alexander,
>
> The Cyrillic fonts currently distributed on Cygwin are those from the
> X.org project (or, rather, Cronyx). They are missing some encodings
> (particularly, CP-1251), and that makes them harder to use with Windows.
> There is an alternative set of fonts, that from the CYR-RFX project, that
> seems to work quite well with X and has multiple encodings. Would you
> consider distributing those fonts as the xorg-x11-fcyr package, instead of
> the Cronyx fonts? If you aren't immediately against the idea, I can work
> on the packaging.
Go on.
Can the fonts coexist with those from xorg? Then I'd suggest using a
name different from xorg-x11-* to distinguish it from those derived from
xorg cvs.
bye
ago
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