Article Title : fonts_international Creation Date : 05/23/97 Message ID : KGFNJQ Last Update : 05/23/97 Expiration Rules : unknown Location : NCD_X_Terminals ================================================================= From time to time, customers may ask for fonts that may sound unfamiliar to us such as Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic etc. Currently, NCD only distributes fonts that are 8859-1 standard. we do have the other fonts on our NCDware or contrib CD. The ISO-8859 standard specifies several character sets. Here is a list of them, taken from the web. 8859-1 Europe, Latin America includes the following languages: Afrikaans, Catalan (?), Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. 8859-2 Eastern Europe 8859-3 SE Europe/miscellaneous (Esperanto, Maltese, etc.) 8859-4 Scandinavia/Baltic (mostly covered by 8859-1 also) 8859-5 Cyrillic 8859-6 Arabic 8859-7 Greek 8859-8 Hebrew 8859-9 Latin5, same as 8859-1 except for Turkish instead of Icelandic 8859-10 Latin6, for Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages Currently, NCD only distributes fonts that are 8859-1 standard. This standard will get all of those latin characters such as diaerisis, grave, acute, circumflex, tilde and so on. This should cover most of the European regions and dialects. There is a fairly good web page that describes where to download some of these fonts. I am not sure of how of these web pages are even around anymore, but this will give you an idea of what these are. This web page is http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/internationalization/font-faq/faq.html Here is a paste in of that page. 3. Availability for X Windows 8859-1 X Windows has several ISO 8859-1 character sets in the standard distribution (those whose names end in iso8859-1). If you are using X11R5, note that some fonts are labeled as ISO compliant fonts which they are not. 8859-2 The X11R6 release contains a font for this cxharacter set. More fonts can be found at URL ftp://ftp.vszbr.cz/pub/X11-fonts/ISO_8859-2. 8859-3 You can find fonts for 8859-3 at URL ftp://ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl/pub/esperanto/fonts.dir. Not all the fonts are Latin-3. At least "adobe3.tar.gz" and "l3-tiparoj.tar.Z" contain Latin-3 BDF fonts. Also, there are fonts at URL ftp://ftp.vszbr.cz/pub/X11-fonts/ISO_8859-3. 8859-4 through 8859-10 You can find fonts for these character sets at URL ftp://ftp.vszbr.cz/pub/X11-fonts. 8859-5 Check out the ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/comp/fonts (esp. subdirectories .../fonts and .../xwin). It has a host of Russian fonts. Also, check out the fonts in ftp://cs.umd.edu/pub/cyrillic/xwin_fonts. This archive contains ISO 8859-5, Koi8 and Alt fonts (Alt is very popular opn PCs.). If you use emacs, russian.el allows you to use one font for the buffer and another for the display. 8859-8 Several fonts for this character set family can be found in the metamail package. The `metamail' package is available via anonymous ftp from thumper.bellcore.com in /pub/nsb. These fonts are in bdf format and can be found in /src/fonts. You will also need software which supports right-to-left writing, such as the MULE system for emacs. Information about MULE can be found on ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at in /pub/8bit/MULE. 8859-10 There are a couple versions of an ISO_8859-10 font for X, the first version of which was based on the ECMA-144 standard and its depictions of the characters. The second version of this font was a revision of the first to improve the appearance of certain accented characters, and to modify the appearance of some of the Latin-6-specific characters to reflect their appearances from what printed material the author could find. Both of these BDF font files can be found by anonymous FTP ftp://ccsun.tuke.sk/pub/ These fonts should also end up at the X Consortium ftp server eventually. Other Fonts Languages Character set Font Thai TIS620 /fonts/ETL.tar.gz Vietnamese VISCII /fonts/ETL.tar.gz Arabic MULE-ETL /fonts/ETL.tar.gz Persian MULE-ETL /fonts/ETL.tar.gz Persian ? ftp://tehran.stanford.edu IPA MULE-ETL /fonts/ETL.tar.gz MULE-ETL is a MULE-specific character set, IPA stands for International Phonetic Alphabet. refers to the root where you have installed MULE (MULE is a MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs). More information on MULE and the MULE package can be found on ftp://etlport.etl.go.jp/pub/mule.