>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
Jan> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
> A Customize that works[2] and supports themes[3] would go a
> long way to reaching the Promised Land. If I can basically get
> the same old
> [2] Outside of ISO-8859-land.
Jan> I would be already be very happy if there was customize
Jan> support for keymaps even just for ISO-8859
But Customize doesn't do a thing for faces, its only real raison
d'etre for me personally, outside of ISO-8859. In fact, using it is
almost certain to give you a butt-ugly screen in Japanese under
XFree86 as distributed by Debian, Turbolinux, and Red Hat, and
probably all the other Linux distros, because the ideographic bitmap
fonts get mixed into lib/X11/fonts/misc, which is scaled by default.
(This is assuming the user is competent to work around Custom's
complete lack of support by setting font sizes for non-ISO-8859 fonts
by hand.)
Even TrueType is not a panacea for that problem, although MS's
standard Mincho and Gothic fonts are pretty good. They can still be
hard to read at some point sizes. (Besides the fact that I can't use
them, because AFAIK they are still distributed with a license that
permits them to be used only with Windows. Having Windows installed
is not sufficient.)
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