From: Bronislaw Baraniecki (bemak@plejada.it.pl)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 09:47:25 EDT
---Reply to mail from Piotr Biernat about national characters
>> How can I get national characters (Polish in my case) in AbiWord?
>> The GUI is perfectly nationalized but when I try to write national
>> characters, it seems to me that I get ISO-8859-1 characters instead of
>> ISO-8859-2 coded ones.
>
> AbiWord uses its own fonts for displaying text (afm, pfm - I sense LaTeX
> fonts here!!!) and X-window fonts for Gtk GUI (that's why you see GUI
> nationalized). Try to copy your fonts into your subdir in fontdir of
> AbiWord (i don't remember exact path right now;) and make that subdir name
> like pl_PL. Then, if you change LANG to pl_PL AbiWord will use your fonts
> as default (IIRC).
>
> ONE correction: in AbiSuite fontdir make a dir (or symlink) names not
> "pl_PL" but "ISO-8859-2" (or any other ISO-, if you use different
> fontsets). Sorry for that mess folks, I was writing from memory, not
> looking at my home computer paths :)
>
> Greetings
> Piotr Biernat
>
As I mentioned later, I tried both or more combinations with folder
names and LANG env. but AW is still blind on ISO-8859-2 fonts.
There must be other configuration tips, I do not want to believe the AW
does not like central-european fonts encoding :-))
But what are thoes Tips?
Bronek
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