Re: Bulgarian translation is unusable :(

From: Iassen Pramatarov (jason_pramik@mail.bg)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 12:48:23 EDT

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    On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:58:48AM -0700, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
    > Can you provide a link to one of your bulgarian fonts?

    A quick search gave me these:
     http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-75dpi.html
     http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/ter-x392.tgz
    Any cp1251 font will be ok, the problem is that I can't use any of them.

    > For the "installation of fonts is hard" part, you can
    > use a xft powered build. You will need the latest
    > fontconfig/Xft from fontconfig.org (rh8 already has them).

     Well, I see Xft in some way a part of XFree86.. But no, I don't have
    fontconfig. Is this some RH-specific tool, like sndconfig, for instance was in
    the past? I believe the management of the font access in Debian is done (at the
    end..) via Defoma (DEbian FOnt MAnager), which, like I said, doesn't allow the
    registration of cp1251 font for abiword (but that may be defoma-specific issue
    anyway;)

     I'm not complaining about the "hard instalation of fonts", I mean that not
    just me, but all the people I know in the Linux society here are saying it's..
    impossible :((
     I make the fonts visible for Abi (in it's own directory, the way described in
    the docs, and to the X also, by adding the folders in the XF86Config-4. No
    result.

     The funny part is, like I said, that when I change the encoding of the strings
    file to Latin-1, the cyrillic appears (still only in the menus)...

    > If it doesn't work that way, send a bug report to bugzilla.

     I'll do that soon, just wondered if this is really a bug in Abi, since users
    of RH managed to get cp1251 in AbiWord v.0.7... But noone said so for v.>=1.0

    > Joaquin Cuenca Abela

    -- 
    Iassen Pramatarov
      aka Turin
    


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