Re: [Indic-computing-users] unicode

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:42:33 +0530 (IST)
Viveka Nathan K <vi...@la...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>   I can use the ttf fonts in the Redhat 8.0.  Here I added the font
>   path to
> /etc/X11/XF86Config. To make the fonts available in KOffice, I run
> xfstt. If not the font is available only in OpenOffice. Is it
> necessary or is there some other way to get the fonts in KOffice ?
> 

 For RH you should add font path for /etc/fs/config , or use
/usr/sbin/chkfontpath -add 'path' utility

>   How unicode values are handled in RedHat 8.0.  How the characters
>   are 
> stored in a file. What I need is, we are having the mo files for
> KDE, which are working for RH 7.3. How can I make use of them to
> Redhat 8.0 ?
> 
 All unicode stuff is stored in UTF-8 encoding. What encoding is ur mo
( or po file ) using ?
If you want to use unicode you need to convert ISCII to UTF-8, use the
perl scripts below .

http://www.indlinux.org/downloads/iscii2utf8.pl-new
http://www.indlinux.org/downloads/utf82iscii.pl-new

Regards,
Karunakar