help using russian fonts ...

From: Jeff Steele (jsteele@coloradocollege.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 23:27:46 EDT

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    Hi All,

    I'm a native en_US speaker (typist ?) interested in learning russian. I
    have succeeded in getting emacs to work : my modified XF86Config allows
    me to input koi8-r
    symbols and I have cyrillic fonts installed in my X font server so that
    I get nice cyrillic text in emacs.

    With Abiword (1.05 and 1.99.5) I am able to get russian translations for
    the menus (*not* what I want !) but can't get cyrillic characters to
    appear correctly in the document body (which *is* what I want.) Just a
    bunch of little circles. This occurs either if I start in a ru_RU.koi8r
    locale, or if I start in en_US.UTF-8 and use the "set language" command.

    With 1.99.5, the claim is that any font available on my font server
    (xfs) should be available in AbiWord; it's not working : I don't see the
    Cyrillic fonts (cronyx, et al.) that are available via xfontsel.

    Is this perhaps related to my other post about the dictionary not being
    found ? How does AbiWord know I'm giving it koi8-r key symbols -- is it
    via russian.hash-encoding ? Is there some other way I have to declare
    that I'm using koi8-r ?

    TIA,

            Jeff

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    Jeff Steele <jsteele@coloradocollege.edu>
    

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