Re: [Indic-computing-users] unicode

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

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:52:57 +0530
Guntupalli Karunakar <kar...@fr...> wrote:

> 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
> 
 above script converts only to devanagari, you can extend it to other
languages

Regards,
Karunakar