[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 1401] New: Please add KOI8-R fonts to X.org tree

Fri Sep 17 05:41:23 UTC 2004

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https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1401        

           Summary: Please add KOI8-R fonts to X.org tree
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Fonts/other
        AssignedTo: xorg-bugzilla-noise at freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: D.Yu.Bolkhovityanov at inp.nsk.su

The X.org xc/fonts/bdf/ includes only very old and ugly cyrillic fonts (taken
from "Cronyx" package).

But for years all distributions (at least Linux ones) include another set of
fonts, so-called fonts-KOI8-R-*.  This set is based on regular X fonts and is
100% visually compatible with them (which is not the case with
xc/fonts/bdf/cyrillc/).

Additionally, xc/fonts/bdf/cyrillc/ doesn't include ukrainian and byelorussian
glyphs, which ARE present in fonts-KOI8-R-*.

This absence of up-to-date fonts in X tree leads to various problems for both
distribution vendors and users.

And placing these fonts directly to X.org xc/fonts/bdf/ seems to be the most
natural solution.

There was a long discussion on this topic at RedHat's bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68531) which includes much
more information.  And the conclusion was to "report the bug upstream", which is
what I'm doing now.

In case of any problems/questions with adding the fonts I'll be glad to give any
required help.

BTW, adding cyrillics "in a right way", i.e., to U+0400 range of iso10646-1
fonts, will also solve the bug #708.        

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