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From: "Andrey S. Kukhar" <plan9@kp.km.ua>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Quality of Plan 9's Cyrillic fonts?
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:23:13 -0400
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this is my feature about quality of some russian fonts:

        /lib/font/bit/lucida/unicode.7.font, unicode.6.font
        rather not bad, but could be better.

        /lib/font/bit/lucidasans/unicode.7.font
	not very good, too small, ugly and curves; not discernible letters
	"�" and "�"; not similar to english characters view.

        /lib/font/bit/lucidasans/unicode.8.font
        too bold, must be named boldunicode.8.font.

        /lib/font/bit/lucidasans/boldunicode.8.font
        in general do not display cyrillic symbols.

        /lib/font/bit/misc/unicode.6x13.font
        big, ugly; not similar to english characters view.

        /lib/font/bit/pelm/unicode.8.font
        big, ugly; not similar to english characters view.

fate of russian fonts to me not indifferent so do not take offence if i has
gone too far somewhere.

Dan, if you need help with writing russian text files, tell me.

-ask

> I've a need to write a bunch of text files in Russian; how do native
> speakers/readers feel about the quality of Plan 9's Cyrillic fonts?
> Are they good, or should I search elsewhere?  Also (and this might be
> related to Andrey's recent question), is there a way to type in
> Cyrillic's without hitting an Alt sequence for each character?
> Thanks!
>
> 	- Dan C.