the problem is that there's still some apps, which use default X GUI (Motif), and all of default X configs have "helvetica" as the default font. Packages cronyx-fonts, font-cronyx-cyrillic and font-misc-cyrillic still provide fonts containing ONLY koi8-r. Hence, the only way to get cyrillic characters in X applications is to remove default adobe bitmap fonts. I suppose it is not a good and elegant solution. :) For example, Debian developers now include Cronyx fonts with unicode support, why do we lag behind? Reproducible: Always
(In reply to comment #0) > For example, Debian developers now include Cronyx fonts with unicode support, > why do we lag behind? That's probably because bitmap fonts are dead cruft only used by dead stuff like Motif that's best forgotten. Maybe you could post some link for the debian stuff or whatnot.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xfonts-cronyx-75dpi http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xfonts-cronyx-100dpi Yes, it's dying, but let it die beautiful :)
+*cronyx-fonts-2.3.8 (21 Feb 2015) + + 21 Feb 2015; Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> +cronyx-fonts-2.3.8.ebuild: + Version bump, which adds unicode support (bug #212544), and uses font.eclass + (bug #304621). Ebuild contributed by Ryan Hill. EAPI bumped to 5.
