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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Question about X fonts Post 302399792 by SilversleevesX on Monday 1st of March 2010 03:07:47 PM

03-01-2010

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Educated guess? Whatever it is that's in your OS that enables displaying non-Western characters in window title bars/captions isn't itself enabled for Cyrillic. You may be missing a library or a package or two. The application has it (many do -- web browsers will often 'parse' a language and display it correctly when nothing else you have installed will do so), but whatever drives the software's title bars doesn't, or isn't correctly configured to handle some languages.

Some of the older-style, rxvt- and xterm-derived terminal emulators have configuration files that you can edit to enable displaying non-Western characters in caption areas, either one at a time or two or three at a go. I'm not familiar, myself, with how to edit such files to do such enabling, but I would guess someone else on this Forum may be able to help you further. Before too long.

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gnome-font-viewer

gnome-font-viewer(1)						   User Commands					      gnome-font-viewer(1)

NAME

       gnome-font-viewer - preview fonts

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-font-viewer filename

DESCRIPTION

       Use  gnome-font-viewer,	the  Font  Viewer, to preview fonts and display information about a specified font. You can use the Font Viewer to
       display the name, style, type, size, version, and copyright of the font.

       To browse the fonts installed on your system, open a file manager window and enter the following URI in the location bar:

       fonts:///

       Double-click on an icon to display a preview of the font.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       filename        The name of the font file to be viewed.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Viewing the test.tff Font in the Font Viewer

       example% gnome-font-viewer test.tff

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer      Executable for Font Viewer

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       attributes(5), nautilus(1)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    09 Nov 2007 					      gnome-font-viewer(1)