FreeBSD and Greek support

[Manolis Kiagias]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:39:19 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy at otenet.gr> wrote:
>   
>> Tore Lund wrote:
>>     
>>> Dimitris Giakoudis wrote:
>>>       
>>>> applied the settings and installed 'ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts' and
>>>> everything is in Greek now. I have a problem though when viewing web
>>>> pages that are encoded with el_GR, there are spaces among the
>>>> letters and it is really ugly.
>>>>         
>>> Have you got examples of such web pages?  I read some Greek things on
>>> the Net, and I have no problem with spaces among the letters.
>>>       
>> I know the symptom Dimitris describes and it is easily solved by
>> installing truetype fonts like the webfonts port or your own truetype
>> fonts in ~/.fonts Dimitris you may allso want to check your settings
>> in your shell startup scripts i.e. (assuming bash)
>>
>> export LANG=el_GR.ISO8859-7
>> or
>> export LANG=el_GR.UTF-8
>>     
>
> Good point.  I'm too sleepy right now (the coffee hasn't started kicking
> in yet from a very early wake up), but it would be nice if we also added
> a note to the article saying that it is important to have the correct
> locale environment *before* the X server fires up, to make sure that all
> X11 programs grok Greek.
>
> Manolis, if you feel like it, and you get to it before I do later today,
> can you add a note like this?  If you don't, I'll get around to it when
> I finish some early morning errands.
>
> - Giorgos
>
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>   

Done, and pushed along with a few minor other fixes.

Manolis