Re: build system: devpdf/download regression

[Deri]

On Tuesday, 21 June 2022 18:44:00 BST Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Ah.  That reminds me that for one of the presentations i gave,
> i needed cyrillic letters because i wanted to include a significant
> number of Bulgarian names into the slides created with groff.
> Back then, i ended up manually installing a cyrillic font to make
> that work.  Now my impression is that it would probably have been
> a better idea to include URW fonts into our groff port in the first
> place: font/devpdf/U-TR appears to include cyrillic letters, unless
> i'm misunderstanding something.

Yes, given this:-

.ft U-TR
.sp 1i
.nf
Font U-TR
Всем привет
.ft TR
.sp 1i
Font TR
Всем привет

produces this pdf.

Cheers

Deri

ru.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document