Re: [Enigma-devel] Russian Localization

[Tacvek]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Heck" <address@hidden>
To: "Ronald Lamprecht" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Дремук Сергей" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Enigma-devel] Russian Localization


> Ronald Lamprecht wrote:
>
> > @Daniel: AFAIK our current font does not support cyrillic characters.
> > How should we support them?
>
> Frankly, I don't know... Are there any any free cyrillic truetype fonts
> that we could distribute with Enigma? A quick google search did not turn
> up anything.

There is a GPL'ed font called ttf-thyromanes that can be found in debian, 
and it includes cyrillic (in addition to latin, greek, and IPA).

The font has no hinting or kerning, which is a downside especially for small 
font sizes.

It has bold, italic, and bold-italic variations.

I have not seen it, so I have no idea how well it matches the current font.

Apparently it is serif, and according to the author it
"includes all the Roman-alphabet characters available in Unicode, along with 
a subset of the most commonly used Greek and Cyrillic characters."

Hopefully that means that only very obsure characters that Enigma would 
never need are missing from the cyrillic.