Unicode font installation on Linux

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

What exactly is necessary to make a font visible to Revolution in  
Linux, in terms of format and installation? I want to use my own  
Arabic, Hebrew and Thai fonts on Linux.

I posted the following bug report about this:

User-installed fonts or special* fonts are not recognised by  
Revolution on
Linux.

Install this font
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?site_id=nrsi&format=file&media_id=EzraSIL251.deb&filename=ttf-sil-ezra_2.51-2_all.deb 
 >

Or install any other font manually in /usr/shared/fonts/truetype/ 
fontname and
run "sudo fc-cache -f -v" in the terminal. All fonts are found by all
applications except Revolution.

*) I'm not sure what is special about the fonts. Maybe it is indeed  
because
they are installed by the user, maybe Revolution has a built-in list  
with
recognised fonts on Linux and my fonts are not included, maybe the  
problem is
that I'm using unicode fonts, perhaps the problem is only that the  
name of the
font is in UTF8 format. Fact is, the fonts work correctly with  
Revolution on
every platform except Linux and they work with every application in  
Linux
except Revolution.

You can find this report here: <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7479 
 >.

Of course, I don't really think that there is a built-in font list,  
but then again I consider anything possible.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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