From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Bronnikov To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Quality of Plan 9's Cyrillic fonts? In-Reply-To: <200208251928.g7PJSKl06699@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:29:36 +0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e07f1968-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Dan Cross wrote: > 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! The fonts are bad -- readable but ugly (the 'b' letter looks especially strange). I am no font expert but I think the fixed fonts that come with X (Cronyx) can serve as the first approximation. As for keyboard drivers: I posted one for 3rd edition a while ago (based on forsyth's and russ's work), and nemo has another variant, though I believe his version does not have Russian layout. It should be a trivial task to adapt any of those to current sources. Maybe I'll do it myself in the next couple of days, but I don't have a running Plan 9 nearby right now, so I don't promise. Goga