Hello
Any body tell me something about console fonts. What they are ? how they can generate How we can able to work with them. For Indian Language, Is there any availble console fonts.
ASA
Aman ALAM wrote:
Hello
Any body tell me something about console fonts. What they are ? how they can generate How we can able to work with them. For Indian Language, Is there any availble console fonts.
ASA
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Hello Asa,
Console fonts are in Linux the fonts that your are not using in XFree86 but in shell-command mode, in Microsoft this is called DOS mode. I can see all the fonts that are available in the free Gnu Linux Fedora 1.91 kernel, that is an impressive list, so for Indian language it will not be an Indian Summer ;-) How the situation is for Microsoft, pleask ask others.
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 06:57, Aman ALAM wrote:
Hello
Any body tell me something about console fonts. What they are ? how they can generate How we can able to work with them. For Indian Language, Is there any availble console fonts.
Some technicalities. Normally the console can show 256 different glyphs at the same time. With a kernel hack some time ago, this was raised to 512 (in this mode you have no blinking, inverse and other attributes like that). The font format has a file extension of .psfu. The 'u' means that the file has information about the Unicode code of each characters. Thus, would can edit those files and add what characters you deem appropriate for your users. By default most distros (RedHat, Fedora, ..?) set the console mode to 512 characters (run "showconsolefont" on the console, or try "showfont" for a bit older distros) and they accomodate the following languages: - Latin based - Arabic - Cyrillic - Hebrew
For more on console fonts, check out the 'kbd' package. When your system boots up, it runs /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit which invokes /sbin/setsysfont (script) and loads the proper font. You must not change these files; you have to set the console font name in /etc/sysconfig/i18n (initially manually, then from the installation program!)
If there is no Punjabi console font in /lib/kbd/consolefonts, you can make one using any fixed-size font (for example, TTF). Search the Internet for those details.
This is the soft way to enable Punjabi fonts "soon". I think you can get fonts in the kernel as mentioned by Gertjan but this requires prompt action and then patience :)
Good luck, Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/
Simos Xenitellis wrote:
... This is the soft way to enable Punjabi fonts "soon". I think you can get fonts in the kernel as mentioned by Gertjan but this requires prompt action and then patience :)
Good luck, Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/
It is not so dramatic as it seems to be, if you get a new kernel source update from redhat, suse, mandrake, debian, freedsb, oh my Gosh I am touching the weak marketing position of Linux/Unix *) a trademark of whom? Yes we all know...
If you get the kernel source, ln -s </usr/src/newKernel> linux-2.4, chdir linux-2.4, chdir configs, choose your config file, copy it to /usr/src/<linux-2.4>/.config Your are in /usr/src/linux-2.4, now, edit Makefile and set custom to what ever you want, I prefer 's'. Now you have to decide also if you do this as being su user or ordinary user, if you have experience with kernels since 1975 like I have, then you might consider being su user, what I always do. From this point on you can adjust your kernel as being ordinary you (YOU eg) , the example is the su mode. # mkdir linux-1.9s # chdir linux-1.9 # find . | cpio -dumpv ../linux-1.9s # cd ../linux-1.9s # cd configs # cp <your configfile> ../config # cd .. # gvim Makefile // put in your subsection title, better be the same as the dir name ZZ # make oldconfig # make config .or. menuconfig .or. qconfig .or. xconfig // trigger your parameters // now comes the slow part # make # make modules # make modules_install # make install // reboot and use with lilo or grub the new kernel
That is all foulks
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:07, Gertjan Vinkesteijn wrote:
Simos Xenitellis wrote:
... This is the soft way to enable Punjabi fonts "soon". I think you can get fonts in the kernel as mentioned by Gertjan but this requires prompt action and then patience :)
Good luck, Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/
It is not so dramatic as it seems to be, if you get a new kernel source update from redhat, suse, mandrake, debian, freedsb, oh my Gosh I am touching the weak marketing position of Linux/Unix *) a trademark of whom? Yes we all know...
I suppose it is a cultural issue. I wished "Good luck" because it is common in my culture. Even the teachers put "Good luck" at the end of the exam questions and they did not do it in an ironic way (well, in some exams...).
There is some time between the inclusion of the fonts in the kernel and actually the specific kernel being used by distros like Fedora. Trying to maintain a custom kernel may put to much work on the volunteers doing the Fedora localisation. The natural way is to schedule for inclusion in the kernel and way for things to propagate. If you have the resources, go for a custom kernel.
In addition, a position I see in open-source software is to maintain private patches and not getting exposed to the international community by submitting to the maintainer of the package and understanding any propagation delays downstream.
simos
Simos Xenitellis wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:07, Gertjan Vinkesteijn wrote:
Simos Xenitellis wrote:
... This is the soft way to enable Punjabi fonts "soon". I think you can get fonts in the kernel as mentioned by Gertjan but this requires prompt action and then patience :)
Good luck, Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/
Sorry foulks, but I am not ironic in my signature, I am 55 yrs old having m-d type 1 myself (only manic), and my girlfriend has to cope with cancer, becherev (very serious rheumatics) in the family, illness of krabbe, with a baby of best friends. That is far from having an ideal situation for both of us. Thus wisdom told me to go, not G.d or so.
Does this pass the moderator's desk?
Simos Xenitellis wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:07, Gertjan Vinkesteijn wrote:
Simos Xenitellis wrote:
... This is the soft way to enable Punjabi fonts "soon". I think you can get fonts in the kernel as mentioned by Gertjan but this requires prompt action and then patience :)
Good luck, Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/
It is not so dramatic as it seems to be, if you get a new kernel source update from redhat, suse, mandrake, debian, freedsb, oh my Gosh I am touching the weak marketing position of Linux/Unix *) a trademark of whom? Yes we all know...
I suppose it is a cultural issue. I wished "Good luck" because it is common in my culture. Even the teachers put "Good luck" at the end of the exam questions and they did not do it in an ironic way (well, in some exams...).
There is some time between the inclusion of the fonts in the kernel and actually the specific kernel being used by distros like Fedora. Trying to maintain a custom kernel may put to much work on the volunteers doing the Fedora localisation. The natural way is to schedule for inclusion in the kernel and way for things to propagate. If you have the resources, go for a custom kernel.
In addition, a position I see in open-source software is to maintain private patches and not getting exposed to the international community by submitting to the maintainer of the package and understanding any propagation delays downstream.
simos
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Thank you Simos, it is so nice that you can also open a fortune cookie and let a butterly starts changing the world for us.
In the new kernels everything is done in UTF-8, look for instance at the latest Fedora Kernel document: /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1/Documentation/unicode.txt
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 06:57, Aman ALAM wrote:
- Latin based
- Arabic
- Cyrillic
- Hebrew
While the default font on Fedora console is the latarcyrheb, but I should mention that Arabic is a complex script, and just cating Arabic Uniode text on console does not give you what you want. Arabic needs special handlings, called bidi/joining, that need their external application. I'm working on one, called BiCon:
http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=BiCon
This is the soft way to enable Punjabi fonts "soon". I think you can get fonts in the kernel as mentioned by Gertjan but this requires prompt action and then patience :)
So am I missing anything here? What does it mean to include your fonts in the kernel? The kernel has a few fonts, but I'm almost sure it's not supposed to be the place to add localized fonts.
Good luck, Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/
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