Richard Megginson wrote: > speedy zinc wrote: > >> --- Chen Shaopeng <chen_shaopeng at idsignet.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> You can change the display font to see if it's >>> right, go to >>> Edit -> Preferences -> Font, and select a font that >>> can >>> display your native language. >>> >>> >> >> hah, that's an easy one :) thanks. >> >> The only thing thouhg, there is no easy way to switch >> font quickly. If I want to view greek contents, I have >> to change to a different font. If I want to view >> chinese >> contents, I have to switch to a font that can handle >> chinese charset.... man, that's not very productive. >> >> > That's an interesting problem. Is there an app that can do that? > I see this as two problems: 1. Most fonts can only handle one charset, some can handle two, e.g. some chinese fonts. The annoying thing, I can choose a font that looks nice in chinese, but way ugly in english (most chinese fonts are like that). Or I can choose a font that looks nice in english, but almost unreadable in chinese (some microsoft chinese fonts are like that). It would be really cool if a font can handle charset of the major languages, and look decent too. And if the application is in utf8, that should display properly for most.Then again, I'm not a font designer, I can only wish. 2. The application can provide the UI that is a little easier for switching charset encoding. For example, Thunderbird and Firefox. Provide a preference dialog, where I can set my preferred fonts for my preferred charset. And from the menu View -> Character Encoding -> list of prefered encodings. When user selects an encoding, teh app switches instantly. IE has this feature too. The auto detect kinda works too, but not always. I read emails and online news in 3 different languages: chinese, english and french. Without an easy switch between encodings, that would kill me :) It would be even better if I can set my preferences for the whole desktop, and apply to all applications. But that's a different issue. rgds, csp -- Chen Shaopeng http://www.idsignet.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 254 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20051109/cc7a74fc/attachment.bin
