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Proposal: Cyrillic fonts for XWin (Attn: xorg-x11* maintainer)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:07:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Proposal: Cyrillic fonts for XWin (Attn: xorg-x11* maintainer)
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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.
Igor
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