Problems with fonts --- need some help on displaying Cyrillic letters.

[Alexander Gottwald]

Constantine wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I have some problems with xfree86 displaying Cyrillic characters. I run 
> the latest version of X on my cygwin machine (x-server), and FreeBSD 4.8 
> (x-clients). I use KDE as my desktop. When I run Konqueror, Cyrillic 
> characters look great, but when I run Mozilla, everything seems to be 
> smashed a lot and instead of Cyrillic characters, I get some squares 
> with numbers.

I guess the xinit script does set the fontpath with local pathnames. This
will not work for remote X unless you have the fonts on the cygwin machine
in the same path as on the bsd machine. 

You can instead use a fontserver. Add all fontpaths you need to 
/etc/X11/fs/config, restart the fontserver and start Xwin with the parameter
-fp tcp/bsd-host:7100 (7100 is the default port for the fontserver)
If the config file contains a "nolisten = tcp" then remove this line too.    

bye
    ago
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