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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why was this feature removed?
From:       Andrew <akar3d () yahoo ! com ! au>
Date:       2002-11-29 15:14:06
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 05:15 am, Neil Stevens wrote:
> KDE can't rely upon this.  And if for some people the only way it works in
> KDE 3 is to install fonts like this, then it's broken.  What good are the
> almighty character set tables, if you still have to resort to a
> proprietary all-unicode font?

Don't be ridiculous Neil. The fonts that each distro supply seems to change 
with each release. Do you think that KDE is responsible if distro X supplies 
helvetiva in 12 encodings and distro Y supplies it only in 4 encodings? Of 
course its nit KDE's fault. 

Currently there is very little in the way of scalable fonts let alone unicode 
fonts supplied with X so most distros supply more under /usr/share/fonts.

Linux is turning into a Unicode system like all modern OS'es so any user with 
half a brain will install what is necessary.

Instead of whinging like you always do how about creating a basic set of 
unicode fonts to supply with kde so that there is no dependence on what the 
distros supply instead of blaming it on KDE.
And stop spreading FUD saying that it depends on proprietary all-Unicode fonts 
because it doesn't; neither proprietary nor all-unicode.  It depends merely 
on having the  *right* fonts and encodings for what you want to do.


-- 
andrew
 
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