Proposal: Cyrillic fonts for XWin (Attn: xorg-x11* maintainer)

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Hi, Alexander,
> 
> The Cyrillic fonts currently distributed on Cygwin are those from the 
> X.org project (or, rather, Cronyx).  They are missing some encodings 
> (particularly, CP-1251), and that makes them harder to use with Windows.  
> There is an alternative set of fonts, that from the CYR-RFX project, that 
> seems to work quite well with X and has multiple encodings.  Would you 
> consider distributing those fonts as the xorg-x11-fcyr package, instead of 
> the Cronyx fonts?  If you aren't immediately against the idea, I can work 
> on the packaging.

Go on. 

Can the fonts coexist with those from xorg? Then I'd suggest using a
name different from xorg-x11-* to distinguish it from those derived from 
xorg cvs.

bye
	ago
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