On Sunday 11 November 2001 07:35, you wrote: > Michael Menegakis wrote: > > Just posted this on the public Ng, but anyway, I thought, it's be nice to > > share. > > > > It is something that IMHO needs to be added on the next release of > > Mandrake. Foreign newbies will find it amazingly usefull. > > > > As a native Greek myself, when I first installed MANDRAKE 8.1, there was > > an option for greek. I chose that and I got greek alright, but I couldn't > > write greek, I could only see greek on the setup procedure and some > > pop-ups, not many though. > > > > Anyway, after some basic research I found that only a few clicks away > > there was full support for my native language. > > > > Here is what I did: > > > > (the arial font is optional here) > > > > 1. Import Arial from Windows with the KDE tool. > > > > 2. Chose Arial Fonts for averything on the KDE--> fonts menu. > > > > 3. EXTREMELY helpfull for every foreign user: Choose CHARSET for specific > > language on KMail(e.g.for greek it's iso-8859-7). This ensures foreign > > language email exchange between Windows and Mandrake. > > > > I believe that a script for the first setup that does all that *or > > similar* would make life easier for every foreign newbie, we all greek > > users are familiar with Windos' ability to have greek ready for us. A > > script like this, would expose Mandrake to every foreign user, Japanese, > > Chinese, Greek, Russian, etc. etc .etc. > > That s what currently happens (and happened for a long time). Russian > works OOTB. If there are particular problems with Greek, post it to > cooker-i18n list.
Well, it doesn't work for the Greek setup. > Importing Windows fonts is a matter of local preferences and should not > be done automatically. Agreed. Charset was not set to iso-8859-7 though, either on KDE or Kmail, which is the default for the greek charset. How can I help for greek fonts plus, charset to be included on the next version? - mike
